Purpose: Survey how families decide when their children are ready for phone and what guidelines they set up.

Directions:

1. This survey is to be filled out by any parent whose multiples are using smart phones (i.e., phones that provide internet access as well as calling and texting), either by sharing or as individuals

2. Answer all questions choosing the single best answer for each question unless otherwise instructed.

3. Choose the answer which best illustrates your experience.

4. As always, all responses are kept confidential.

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* 1. What type of multiples do you have?

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* 2. Are your multiples....?

If you have more than one set of multiples, enter Zygosity for 2nd set of Multiples

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* 3. What is the Gender of your Multiples?

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* 4. What is the age of your multiples?

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* 5. At what age did your multiples first receive their smart phones?

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* 6. Do your multiples share a smart phone or have individual smart phones?

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* 7. Has sharing a phone led to conflict among your multiples?

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* 8. Do you plan to provide each multiple with their own cell phone within the next year?

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* 9. What is the primary way your multiples learned to use their phone?

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* 10. Do you feel the parent(s) or the multiples know more about using the smart phones?

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* 11. Did you set limits on the hours the multiples are allowed to use the phones?

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* 12. Do you track the location of the phone?

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* 13. Do you block social media in any way?

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* 14. Do you filter websites?

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* 15. Are your multiples allowed to use the phone in their school setting?

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* 16. Do you take physical control of the phone at any time, for instance during meals, during homework, at night or after a certain hour, and so on

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* 17. How do you feel about the amount of time that you know your multiples are using their phones?

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* 18. Have any of your multiples experienced any problems with harassment, cyberbullying, unwanted text messages, etc.?

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* 19. Did you intervene with the harassment, cyberbullying, etc.

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* 20. How do your multiples handle their data usage?

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* 21. If you had to do it again, would you provide a smart phone to your multiples at the same age at which they first received a smart phone?

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* 22. Do you have any further comments on this topic?

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