Sources: www.totalyouthresearch.com | www.youthministrymedia.com | www.xo-learning.org/tablets-and-kids-stats/ | www.ourpact.com
www.early-childhood-education-degrees.com | www.thehuffingtonpost.com
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10%
17% 39%
52% 0-1 year-olds
have played with
a smart device
3 and under
children who own their own
smart device
2-4 year-olds
have used
a smart device
5-8 year-olds
have played with
a smart device
The average American
child spends more than
40 hours a week in front
of a screen
Teens spend
36 percent
of their
disposable income
on mobile
phones 30 percent
of apps
on parents’
phones are
downloaded by their
children Children under age 2 spend more than twice the
time watching TV/videos as reading books
is the average number of texts
sent by a teen per day
7 out of 10 children are using tablets
45% 80%
80% 89%
of adolescents sleep
fewer than eight hours,
in part due to attention-
stealing devices
of teens sleep
with their phone
of teens say they would
experience negative feelings
if they could not check their
phone for one day
of teens say the
first thing they do in
the morning is check
their phone
“Facebook Depression” is the phenomenon that results when teens
spend too much time on social networking sites
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