IDG Contributor Network: Survey: Kids now online at age 3
The Internet has changed young children’s lives and they now are as comfortable picking up an iPad as they are a coloring book.
Kids now spend twice as much time on the Internet as they did 10 years ago, and it’s escalating, research from an age-verification software developer has discovered.
UK-based Agechecked says that over a quarter of kids there (28 percent) are using the Internet before they attend their first school. The statutory school age there is from five years old.
And “one in six children, or 16 percent, begin their online experience at age three or under” the report (PDF) claims. Parents need to get aware, the company believes, and they should be acquainting themselves with their kids’ habits.
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