When Amy Morris’ twin boys, thereupon 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program’s desire. But that summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter’s day camp were using cell phones they’d taken along in their backpacks.

“We were outraged,” says the Connecticut mother, who adds that the camp didn’t know. “These girls think it’s a cute game. But it’s inappropriate, and it’s unnecessary.”

It’s a signature parenting dilemma of the wireless age: Should kids have cell phones? And how old is old ample? It pits our understandable desire to keep tabs on our offspring — not to mention build them happy — against the instinctive feeling that it’s simply, well, wrong for youngsters to spend their day chatting and texting by the airwaves.

Now, there’s further ammunition for Morris and other reluctant parents like […]

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