Are kids too plugged in?

[Bio-Hazard]

"The big finding of a 2005 survey of Americans ages 8 to 18 by the Kaiser Family Foundation is not that kids were spending a larger chunk of time using electronic media -- that was holding steady at 6.5 hours a day (could it possibly get any bigger?) -- but that they were packing more media exposure into that time: 8.5 hours' worth, thanks to "media multitasking" -- listening to iTunes, watching a DVD and IMing friends all at the same time."


http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/19/time.cover.story/index.html

[coldgin]

I would rather have my kids be plugged in at home, than out with so called friends, smashing bus stop booths, which I seem to see once a month in my neighborhood, or doing drugs.

[digitalwanderer]

And what is wrong with multi-tasking? It lets you fit a whole lot of lazy into just a little bit of time, I live by it! :shock: