If this isn’t a good enough reason to keep children off devices and social media, I don’t have a better one.

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Child spends $1K worth of food on GrubHub

Mason Stonehouse managed to buy five orders of jumbo shrimp, salads, shawarma, chicken pita sandwiches, chili cheese fries, ice cream, grape leaves, and rice ... but that's not all.

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GrubHub gave them $1,000 credit on food so they broke even. I wonder how many other people will try that now to get free food.  It’s not going to work a second time.

He was 6 years old lol. I don't think he grasped the concept that the food had to be PAID for. It is a good reason to put parental locks on your own devices ( guessing this option exists? my kid is 27 with her own phone!)  That said, kids 10 and older can probably be trusted with phones, especially in these days of danger in schools and so on.  I remember being literally the only girl in my 7th grade class not allowed to wear light makeup and how it made me feel at that age to be "different" from everyone else. A friend of mine controls his daughter's phone as to what she is allowed to access and how much data she can use. (She's 12). I've never ordered from GrubHub or any of that sort of thing, but you'd think customers would have to set up an account with a password and verification so this sort of thing can't happen again.

Risa (Risa25) said...

It is a good reason to put parental locks on your own devices

There was an incident last year, I think it was, where the mother had facial recognition turned on. But the daughter, who was a splitting image of her mother, was able to open her mother's locked iPhone with her own face. LOL

And similarly, she too, ordered quite a few things (I think it was mainly toys).

Bottom line: If you're going to hand your kid your smartphone, ensure that you don't take your eyes off of them while they're using it. Or else, get the kids their own smartphone with no links to credit cards. I guess if you didn't have any credit card or e-money tied apps on your smartphone, there wouldn't be that much of a worry though.

FWIW

You would think they would fix their access so a child’s can’t order again. The app makers are somewhat to blame. They want people to order a lot so they make it as easy as possible. 

I would not let a child play with my phone.  I might get them their own dedicated gaming device.

When my kids were growing up, we didn't have smartphones... in fact, we didn't even have flip phones. 

But if I did have one back then, I would not let them play with it for various reasons. 

FWIW

Same here, my children are younger than yours but we were late adopters. They had flip phones.