Emily Andre on holding off letting Millie get a phone: There is so much scope for bullying
Emily Andrea has admitted that she’s holding off letting her eight year old daughter get a mobile phone.
Writing exclusively in her OK! column, the NHS doctor says that she thinks allowing Millie to have one opens up the “scope for bullying and online abuse”.
The mum-of-two’s comments came as she discussed singer Pink’s recent quotes where she revealed that she isn’t allowing her 10 year old daughter Willow to have a phone yet.
Pink, 42, said: “There’s a light side and a shadow side to technology in general for adults, as well.
“For kids, I’m not there yet. I have a 10-year-old who does not have a phone, although she pointed out to me yesterday: ‘You know most of the kids in my class, fifth grade, have a phone.’
“That doesn’t move my needle. I don’t care.”
And sharing her own thoughts, Emily, 32, wrote: “Singer Pink has admitted that she’s not ready to let her 10-year-old daughter, Willow, have a phone yet.
“For me, with the kids, it depends on the situation and how they’re getting to and from school. As Millie (eight) gets older, if she was getting herself to school or waiting for a bus, then I would think having a mobile phone was reasonable.”
She continues that she doesn’t think it’s “necessary” for her eldest child to have own phone at this present time.
“But now it doesn’t seem necessary because she is either with an adult at school or with me and Pete,” she says.
“I didn’t get a mobile phone until I was 16! These days, I think it will be quite hard to hold off until then.
“Millie will jokingly ask for a phone now and again. She put an iPhone 13 on her Christmas list but knew she wasn’t going to get one.
She has an iPad so she can FaceTime some friends or family members but to me it’s not necessary for her to have a phone right now.”
Adding that the “longer she can hold off the better”, she concluded: “I think there is so much scope for bullying and online abuse with a phone. The longer I can hold off, the better.”
As well as Millie, Emily is also mum to son Theo, five, with her singer husband Peter Andre.
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Pete is also dad to son Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, who he shares with his former wife Katie Price.
Discussing allowing Princess to have a phone, Pete revealed the teen was only allowed to have her phone in her room once she turned 14.
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