TLDR:
Making your kids go without smartphones could be difficult because their friends will most likely have phones and will most likely leave your kid out of events and conversations.
TLDR:
Making your kids go without smartphones could be difficult because their friends will most likely have phones and will most likely leave your kid out of events and conversations.
Problem is, those kids will eventually get these devices, and then they have no framework for how to control their own usage. I would imagine they'd also have some catching up to do on social expectations about device usage in groups.