Children Spend Over 7 Hours in a Day Online

According to a new study children as young as eight are spending more than seven hours a day online. The study by US welfare institute the Kaiser Family Foundation, on average youngsters spend seven hours and 38 minutes using "entertainment media" across a typical day, an increase of one hour 17 minutes since 2004. This includes surfing Internet, computer games, listening music on iPods and using mobile phones.The researchers, who talk around 2,000 young people aged between eight and 18, found that some youngsters consume up to 10 hours of electronic content a day through "media multitasking", or by simultaneously using more than one device, the Telegraph reported.

Children on average spend one hour and 35 minutes on sending or receiving messages, girls appeared to be devoting more time (25 mins a day) than boys (19 mins) using social networking sites such as Facebook, the study found. According to
report by Kaiser Family Foundation, there has been a dramatic increase in the time children spend using electrical gadgets in the past five years.

Portable devices have revolutionized the way children access television programmers, films and music, said the report. Michele Elliott, a child psychologist and founder of the child welfare charity Kidscape, said parents needed to limit the amount of time young children use electronic media. At all its very harmful to our kids and should be ware for this.

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