Experts are worried that if kids depend on messages to give them a sense of worth then they will feel bad about themselves if they don't get as many messages as their friends.
£100,000 a day
Nine out of ten children now own a mobile phone. They are reported to spend £100,000 a day just on text messaging.
A 16-year-old girl was reported to have spent all her dinner money for the past three months on texting her friends!
Communication skills
Childalert, an advice service for parents, say that children's communication skills could suffer because they keep interrupting conversations to check their phones for messages.
Peer pressure was said to be the most likely reason for kids to want their own mobile phone. But some parents said they want their kids to have mobiles for safety reasons.
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