10 year old daughter has an iMac, iPad, iPod touch, and Chromebook. No iPhone yet. She does have iMessage and texts with her friends, but they mostly all just get on FaceTime at night and hang out. It’s like the group party calls kids (mostly girls) in my generation did.
We trust her a whole lot with the Internet stuff. We’ve had conversations about appropriate content and appropriate behavior and about how what you put in digital writing is there for all eternity, so don’t be stupid. In a year or two we’ll probably get her a phone, so she can go out bike riding etc with her friends and without grown ups but we can still be in touch.
We did get her a GizmoWatch. It’s a pretty basic smart watch that lets you call a list of approved people, and them call you, and let’s us track her location. She never wears it, though she does have to wear it when not with us. We let her walk the dog alone for the first time recently and she wore it, was nice to be able to know where the heck she was.
But yeah, no contracts here.