Children have not only changed the use of their free time in front of the television, tablet or mobile, but they also spend less and less time in front of a screen. The October Common Sense Media survey of American parents of children under the Lebanon Mobile Database age of eight reveals that their children now spend an average of 1 hour and 55 minutes in front of any device with a screen, compared to 2 hours and 16 minutes in 2011 .
The report reveals that in one way or another, in the end the minors reproduce the behavior patterns they observe in their parents. And they not only reduce the time they are in front of a screen, whatever size it is, they also reflect a behavior increasingly inclined to mobile. The time they spend on devices such as television, DVD or desktop computers has fallen, while the minutes spent on mobile devices have tripled in the last two years, reaching 15 minutes compared to 5 in 2011.
Furthermore, little by little they cease to be a minority. The number of children who use a mobile device at least once a day has gone from 8% in 2011 to 17% this year. In practically the same proportion, the number of viewers under the age of eight has fallen, from 65% who watched television every day two years ago, to 58% who do so today. The same has happened with DVD (from 25% to 18%). On the other hand, the PC maintains the attention of 14% of the minors.
The first impression of the study could be misleading, since the increase in the use of mobile devices among children is not just a reflection of the fact that more and more parents own smartphones and tablets. There are also more children with mobile devices. For example, 7% of the children surveyed by Common Sense Media had their own tablets, almost the same number of parents who had one two years ago (8%).
The entertainment industry takes advantage of the Brother Cell Phone List pull and as the use of tablets has grown among such an extremely young population, the content and games available to them on the screens has grown. The study found that mobile devices are mostly used by those under eight years of age to play games (63%), followed by the use of applications (50%). Video consumption also has a place on the podium of children’s popularity (47%), followed in the list by television programs or movies (38%) and book reading (30%).
