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Your son's insecurity is being preyed upon

Getting the iPhone isn't a solution. Building up your son's confidence and capability will arm him against bullies and internal insecurities.

To build these up I did martial arts as a teen and it helped me a lot.

Caving to peer pressure is not a position of strength.

On the other hand it can also be the case your son wants an iPhone. In this case good to chat with him.

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The child must want to do martial arts or whatever other solution to appreciate it.

The parent ought to build up their child, and __telling__ and reasoning to the child why they are wrong is not the way to solve a social or emotional problem.

This. Especially if you are in the US, Gracie Academy runs a special training for kids to teach them how to handle bullying (and no, not by choking another kid)

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