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Child behaviour: Children are 'multi-tasking' media at home
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
24 January 2008
A quarter of five- to eight-year-olds have their own computer and more than two in three are regular internet users, according to new research.
An annual monitor report by research agency Childwise has found that today's children are growing up 'multi-tasking', often eating, sleeping or using the internet at the same time as watching television. Researchers examined the media habits of 1,147 UK children aged five to 16 by conducting face-to-face interviews via schools. It found a huge growth in the use of social networking sites, such as Club Penguin and Bebo, and a revival in television viewing, which had fallen for three years in...
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