Amanda Brunker’s kids WON’T be getting a phone this Christmas and for a very good reason: she feels it would be giving them “too much rope”.
The mum-of-two was writing in her column for the Irish Independent when she revealed that she doesn’t want eight-year-old Setanta and Edward, nine, having unlimited access to social media.
‘[W]hy, as a parent, should I roll over on the idea of a phone so my boys could have unlimited access throughout a school day to chat rooms and Snapchat?” she wrote.
"To me that’s just giving them far too much rope.”
Revealing her biggest fear is online grooming, the 42-year-old urged parents to be aware:
“With perverts free to prowl kids’ online games such as Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Minecraft - these are just a few that my nine-year-old admitted to having looked at in the past - I say: be aware parents, be aware.”
