Childrens Media Usage Skyrockets During Past Year [STUDY]

Good news: Your teenage sons and daughters have doubled their productivity over the last year.

No, they're not doing twice as much homework or eating double servings of vegetables. Young teenagers are, however, sending twice as many text messages on average compared with 2011.

Ofcoms latest annual report on childrens media habits shows that those ages 12-15 are averaging 193 text messages each week, more than double last year's average of 91. Of that group, girls tend to send about 35% more messages than boys.

"Childrens take-up and use of different media is growing at a rapid pace, with some areas such as texting and sm…
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