There are loads of nuanced and complicated reasons that I deny my girls all of the fun electronics that their friends have. Or that they think their friends have. Sweet girls, you are 4 & 8, most of your friends do not have their own phones or their own iPads. Just like you, they irritatingly poach their parents devices sometimes.  Or, when we, the parents are fed up with incessant whining and bitching, we thrust the phone into your hand and demand that you quit bugging us. Also, I'm concerned about inappropriate content and about cyber bullying and and  and . . . But I realized that right now, for me it boils down to mostly just one thing. I wrote about it at Portland City Moms Blog. I'd love it if you'd click the link and go read it!