When Your Kid Got Hold of Your Phone

Published on

26 May 2022

A viral Facebook post that’s gotten over 10 thousand shares has reminded parents that giving them your phone to play with might not be the best idea in the world. Kelsey Burkhalter Golden shared a post of her 2 year old son who made a massive fast food order from food delivery service DoorDash without her looking. “I have 31 free cheeseburgers from McDonald’s if anyone is interested,” her post read.

The Smile Breakfast team asked our listeners what their kids have done when they got hold of their phones, and we were never ready. Some had spent a substantial amount of money:

Some left their phones dirty….or too clean:

Of course there were the obligatory voice notes sent to random contacts:

Above all, we learned that kids are not above sending pictures to your family that you don’t want them to see:

Phil de Lange

Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.