Product design question

Create a smartphone for a 6-year-old.

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What this question tests

Product sense balancing a child's needs with parental control and safety, a very different brief than an adult smartphone.

Identify the real stakeholders, the child user and the parent who controls and pays for the device, both need to be designed for.
Identify the core parental need, safety and control, limiting screen time, app access, and contact lists to approved people only.
Identify the core child need, simple, large icon navigation and durable, no choking hazard hardware appropriate for a six year old's motor skills.
Propose the product, a simplified OS with parent approved app whitelisting, GPS location sharing, and no open internet browser or app store access.
Define success metrics, parent reported comfort or trust level and child engagement with approved educational content, not raw screen time.

Designs for both stakeholders explicitly, the parent's control needs and the child's usability needs, rather than treating this as a smaller adult phone.
Proposes a concrete safety mechanism, parent approved contact and app whitelisting with no open browser, appropriate for a six year old rather than a teen.
Chooses a metric reflecting real value, parent trust and engagement with educational content, deliberately avoiding screen time maximization as a goal.

Designing this like a scaled down adult smartphone with no special safety or parental control considerations.
Optimizing for engagement or screen time, which is the wrong goal for a child focused product.
Ignoring hardware safety considerations appropriate for a young child.

How would you handle the transition as the child gets older and needs more independence?
How would you prevent the device from becoming a source of parent child conflict over control?