Kids & Electronic Media For full article

Kids & Electronic Media

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(Related article: “Kids less happy as they’re more plugged into TV, music, Web?” http://ow.ly/YzmD)

“Kids these days spend so much time with electronic media — cellphones, iPods, video games and computers — that it might as well be a full-time job: more than 53 hours a week, a study finds.
“Compared with peers a decade ago, young people spend 79 more minutes of free time each day listening to music, watching TV and movies, playing video games and hanging out online. Nearly twice as many now say they do at least two of these at the same time.”

Kids spend over 7 hours a day with various media*. For kids 8 to 18, average time (hours:minutes) spent with:

• TV content: 4:29
• Music audio: 2:31
• Computer: 1:29
• Video games: 1:13
• Print: 0:38
• Movies: 0:25

*Total media exposure is 10:45 hours, but combine to 7:38 with multi-tasking

Availability of TV adds up

Total media exposure among 8 to 18 year olds with:

• TV in bedroom: 11:56
• No TV in bedroom: 7:55
• TV left on most of time: 12:14
• TV left on only a little/never: 9:05
• No media rules: 12:43
• Have media rules: 9:51

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation study