How Young is Too Young? Companies Are Marketing Cellphones for 5-Year-Olds

How young is too young for kids to have a cell phone?

Studies find that 60% of 10 and 11 year-old's have cell phones - but some kids are getting them even younger than that.

Some marketers are targeting phones to kids as young as 5 years old.

Twice as many 12 to 17 year-olds have a cell phone as they did 2 years ago and half of those phones are smart phones.

CBS News reports the National Consumers League, commissioned the study the 2012 study; and since then, that average age has gotten even younger, and the prevalence of cell phones among teens and pre-teens has nearly doubled.

While many parents feel cell phones are important because they can help them communicate with their child while they are getting home safely from school or while a parent is working, surveys show only 7% of adults think kids under 10-years-old should have a cellphone.

How do you feel?  What is an appropriate age for a child to have a cell phone? Does it bother you that companies are marketing cellphones to kids so young or this just the way of the future ...and the present?

Leave your thought in the comments section below or have your 5-year-old send me a text.