It says that many under-16s spend more than 20 hours a week glued to the internet, three times higher than official estimates.20 hours is a lot. I who even work with the Internet, have a blog and in my opinion play around at Facebook quite a lot, do not manage to spend more than 20 hours of my free time on the Internet.
The report also showed that young people are constantly connected staying up to the early mornings surfing the Internet and leaving their mobiles on during the night in case they will get an important text message.
It's very easy to shake ones adult head in dismay and say something about today's kids... And it's also very easy to forget how things have changed over the last 10, 20 or even 25 years, because it really has. Computers, mobiles and the Internet are part of everyday life. Society has changed a lot too and as well as it being hard growing up it's not easy being an adult either. Since what's missing really is time. Time for parents to spend with their children and time for children to be children.
As an adult I do believe it has to start with us. We are the role models and if we fail then our children will fail too.
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