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.
'Weâve chosen in our family that itâs 13 where you get a phone, ' the self-made billionaire explained. Scroll down for video. The challenges of being a parent: Bill Gates has said that 13 is an appropriate age for a child's first cell phone, and he's applied the rule to his family. He said as a result his brood often return home from school complaining: 'All the other kids have it.