Photo-Illustration: The Strategist To have a kid in 2025 is to be anxious about when they’ll inevitably start asking for a phone . It’s easy for me, the mom of a toddler, to say I will wait as long as possible to give my son any kind of smart device. But for parents of tweens and young teens, especially ones who relied on iPads and Chromebooks throughout the pandemic, things are much more complicated. And despite recent phone bans in many schools across the country, individual families are