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Does your kid need access to the internet at all times? Do they need a camera available at all times? Are there a lot of apps that they need to have available to them? If not then probably a flip phone would be a better choice. Either that or one of those kids smart watches like a Gizmo if you want something you can track their location with.
Remember the main purpose of a smartphone is to be online all the time, and children are geniuses at figuring out how to access things that are supposedly blocked or restricted
I wonder if that's still the case these days, since kids don't need to develop skills just to use the device, they might not be developing the skills to break out of parental control walled gardens. Though if parental controls are enough to motivate kids to learn those skills, learning those skills might be more beneficial than them being able to get around parental blocks is detrimental.