The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.Read the rest. Parents, how you are dealing with this one?
Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones.
And because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Kids and Time Spent on Technology
The NY Times has an interesting new article on kids and the amount of time they spent online through the computer, phones, etc.
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my kids have 30 minutes of allowed computer time per day. that's it. no tv, no video games (besides computer). they play outside and with their friends, do homework and are creative at finding activities to keep themselves busy. they also do chores, practice piano and can hold a conversation at the dinner table without texting (they have no phones). it CAN be done and life is better with these limits.
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