Trust and teach them and monitor them, limit time, don’t let them take them to their rooms or bathroom or don’t give it to them. We didn’t give cell phones originally till 6th grade. My daughter is 5th grade and has one now 5 of 6 kids have them. You can add all the restrictions in the world, they will still be able to access bad content on their phone. Computers are all in the open and they can’t view questionable stuff without everyone seeing. I also taught my kids the dangers of porn, one of my kids got invited by who they thought was a friend to a discord server and it wound up being porn. Almost 2 years later and the detriment we have dealt with since I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Anime porn for girls is a problem as well, I have a friend whose daughter got sucked into that. We had no clue, I was naive. Phones can access pretty much anything and everything and get around internet protections. Kids are smart, if you don’t think your child can handle the responsibility or don’t yet have the tools to keep safe don’t get one. Unless you can get one of those phone that is strictly a phone. Unfortunately we just have to warn warn warn our kids, give them the skills to be the best human they can and then trust them to make good choices when they are mature enough to do so. I want my kids to be capable adults while protecting them as long as they need. It’s difficult to gauge, trust your parental instincts.
Trust and teach them and monitor them, limit time, don’t let them take them to their rooms or bathroom or don’t give it to them. We didn’t give cell phones originally till 6th grade. My daughter is 5th grade and has one now 5 of 6 kids have them. You can add all the restrictions in the world, they will still be able to access bad content on their phone. Computers are all in the open and they can’t view questionable stuff without everyone seeing. I also taught my kids the dangers of porn, one of my kids got invited by who they thought was a friend to a discord server and it wound up being porn. Almost 2 years later and the detriment we have dealt with since I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Anime porn for girls is a problem as well, I have a friend whose daughter got sucked into that. We had no clue, I was naive. Phones can access pretty much anything and everything and get around internet protections. Kids are smart, if you don’t think your child can handle the responsibility or don’t yet have the tools to keep safe don’t get one. Unless you can get one of those phone that is strictly a phone. Unfortunately we just have to warn warn warn our kids, give them the skills to be the best human they can and then trust them to make good choices when they are mature enough to do so. I want my kids to be capable adults while protecting them as long as they need. It’s difficult to gauge, trust your parental instincts.