Some good news and some bad news: According to a recent survey, television now accounts for less than half of children's viewing time (its major competition coming in the form of computer gaming and Internet-ing on the computer). The bad news? The total time that kids spend in front of screens is still nearly six hours a day.A survey of 1800 kids in Britain, ages five to 16 years old, was conducted by the Childwise research agency. It found that YouTube was the most popular Web site with the kiddies, followed by social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. The official breakdown was 2.7 hours per day watching television, 1.5 hours on the Internet, and 1.3 hours on computer and video games.
The accompanying drop in reading sees kids spending 0.6 hours per day in front of pages, with the number of children reading for pleasure falling from 80-percent last year to 75-percent. 42-percent of 11 to 16-year-olds said that they never read books for pleasure. We believe the solution rests in subtitled foreign films. The best of both worlds! [From: BBC]switched.com/tag/children/
The accompanying drop in reading sees kids spending 0.6 hours per day in front of pages, with the number of children reading for pleasure falling from 80-percent last year to 75-percent. 42-percent of 11 to 16-year-olds said that they never read books for pleasure. We believe the solution rests in subtitled foreign films. The best of both worlds! [From: BBC]switched.com/tag/children/
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