New Study Says: If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online
This article appeared in the New York Times last week, but I didn’t see it until this weekend.
A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that today’s youth spends literally every waking hour, except for the time in school, connected to the Internet in some way. Whether it be online or texting, kids are multitasking and pushing their multi-media usage to new extremes.
This article is fascinating and, when you reflect on it, is absurd to think that parents today are too scared to monitor how their child spends half of their waking existence. If you know your child is online 7 hours a day, why are you not monitoring? (see: PC Pandora)
PLEASE, CLICK THE HEADLINE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE!
January 20, 2010
If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online
By Tamar Lewin
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.
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 cell phones…
