Episode 260: When Should I Give My Kid a Cell Phone? Plus, ‘Bonhoeffer’

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 260 Christmas is coming. Just flip on a football game or walk through a grocery store and you’ll see plenty of evidence of that. And that means that many a parent is asking themselves a critical and often vexing question: Should I get my child a phone for Christmas? For many a teen—and let’s be honest, a preteen, too—a phone might be the biggest thing on their Christmas wish list. Getting a phone can feel almost like a rite of passage these days.