bode (third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
Children get first mobile phone at average age of eight. Eight is the average age at which children are given their first mobile phone, according to a survey. More than a third of children (35 per cent) own a mobile by the time they are that age, the charity Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg) discovered.
My own 12-year-old is a texting rock star, clocking in 2,500 per month compared to my 600 average. But beyond how cellphone-crazy teens and tweens have become, thereâs one side of the story that has been missing. Mobile phones may be inevitable, but when is the right time for parents to get a child their own mobile phone? Most experts agree thereâs no single answer thatâs right for every parent and every child. SEE ALSO: How Smartphones Keep Parents Organized. Harris Interactive recently polled parents on what they thought was the most appropriate age for a child to receive their first phone.