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More than one-third of 15-year-old children in the UK could be classified as 'extreme internet users', or those who are online for more than six hours daily outside of school.
A report from UK think-tank Education Policy Institute (EPI) states that children in the UK have a higher rate of extreme usage (37.8 percent of all UK 15 year olds) than other countries. Only Chile reported more.
The think-tank examined the relation between social media use (including online time) and mental illness:
While twelve percent of children who spend no time on social networking websites on a normal school day have symptoms of mental ill health, that figure rises to 27 percent for those who are on the sites for three or more hours a day.
Here's a hint: if one third of your kids think a certain way, it's a personality trait not a mental illness.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:23AM
Most parents are reasonable when it comes to standard child caring. It's when they meet a non-intuitive online world that their thinking process will be seriously challenged and they must learn to navigate something more complex than a truthful (oh well) newspaper and town gossip. So 90% of parents could handle a upbringing without internet. With internet it drops more according to Sturgeons law.
I think this issue is not so much about country as about able and will do due diligence on critical thinking. This skill seems even more important now that media lies and various organizations move in to take their exploitation of others.