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Ruth Peters, a child psychologist in Clearwater, Fla., said most children were not ready for their own phones until age 11 to 14, when they were in middle school.
After surveying the parents of 350 children aged six months to 4 years old during October and November of last year, researchers learned that 75 percent of 4-year-olds have smartphones. About 97 percent of kids under age four have used a mobile device and 50 percent of children the same age had their own television. Nearly 100 percent of kids started using smartphones before their first birthday. Shockingly, nearly all (97 percent) children used mobile devices before their first birthday.