Technology
Danger as young kids watch TikTok more than TV – Whitsunday Times
Kids as young as six are getting their own mobiles – and it’s changing how they watch TV. But that’s creating a big problem.
Young children are spending more time watching online videos on sites such as YouTube and TikTok than television, research reveals.
The finding for kids aged eight and under has experts worried they are missing out on the “incidental” learning that comes from watching educational programs.
That’s because it’s much harder for parents to monitor what kids watch on their own devices than what they watch on big family TV screens.
It comes as growing numbers of children as young as six have their own…
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