When Does Your Child Get Their First Phone?

Every answer feels like “too soon.”

Will Leitch
4 min readMay 11, 2021

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I was watching the truly delightful The Mitchells Vs. the Machines on Netflix with my two sons the other evening when one of them, Wynn, the younger one, got aggrieved.

“Why does that kid get a phone and I don’t?”

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Will Leitch

I write about these tumultuous times 2x a week. Author of five books, including “How Lucky.” NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com