My Daughter Is Ready For Her First Smartphone. I’m Not Ready to Give It to Her.
Sumathi Reddy, right, with her daughter Priya in their living room on March 11. When I was growing up, coming-of-age was marked by numerous things. A bar mitzvah. A girl’s first period. A sweet-16 party or a driver’s license. Today the rite-of-passage that marks a child’s transition to adolescence comes far earlier. It comes, in…