- Here I started with the title about internet.
- I wrote an introduction and a report together.
- what is the purpose with this article?
- I use different questions about internet and children.
- I use statistic and information about internet.
- I use two different sources one from Sweden and one from USA.
The purpose of this article is to compare what parenst think about their children using the intenet. The focus is on parents from USA and from Sweden.
Why is internet important for children today and why are they spending so much time with Internet?
Today it is normal that we are speaking about internet and who uses internet. Sometimes we think that adults use internet more than children. When we talk about who uses internet more we are talking about older persons. We generally think our children rarely use internet. But we were wrong about it because we don’t have time for ourselves and we can’t control what our children are doing. I want to say something about children and internet. When I read one article on the webpage I found something about it. According to Metro´s reporter Fredrik Samuelson, 03 October 2018 ”every fourth child in the age of one uses the internet”. There are many children spending time on internet.
How many percent of Swedish children use the internet and why is it positive when the children use internet?
Young children watch childprograms on surf platforms. They have many things that play on phones and surf platforms when they use internet. According to Fredrik Samuelson 26 percent of Swedish children under one years use internet. It is considered as something positive for the future of the children. When they grow up to the age of about 7 years they look after information on internet in the school.
When the reporter asked a few of the children’s parents they answered that they grow up with digital products. That is why they don´t think it´s a problem when their children use Internet.
The statistics show the use of the internet from different ages among children from Sweden.
In the same article there is statistics about the differences between age when it comes to children and their use of internet. Among one year old children 37 percent use internet and among two year old children it is 79 percent. Among four year old children 97 percent use the internet according to the Metro report.
Information about children in the USA!
I searched for more information on internet about how children in other countries use the Internet. I found an article about children from USA. The article is about “kids under 9 spend more than 2 hours a day” as published on October 19,2017 on CNN.Com. The article is written by Jacqueline Howard. The kids spend so much time with their smartphones that they develop sleeping problems. Children have problem with concentration during lessons in school and can´t wake up in the morning. The information from CNN is taken from another source. The source is Common Sense Media . According to the report children from age 8 spend 15 minutes a day with internet. The report was made in 2013.
How does using the Internet affect children?
The fact that children usually spend time on the internet doesn´t come as a shock says Douglas Gentile, a Psychology professor at lowa States University. He continues to present more explanations about his experience. He says that many children use smartphones when they are at the airport and his daughter almost never watches TV on television. Instead she watches shows on her phone, Gentile says.
In the same article stands another report from 2011 about how much time children spend on the Internet. It shows that children spend around 48 minutes a day using the internet. Here we easily can see a big difference between 2011 and 2013.
Finally, I think the differences are biggest because of two different cultures. Children as young as one year of age spend time with the internet in Sweden . The report shows that parents don’t worry about what their children are looking at. They think that it will be great for their childrens future. Here I can see simply that parents in Sweden think positively.
In the USA parents think about their children differently. There they think that the children have a big problem when they use the internet and they are worried that their children do not sleep, because they think they spend too much time on the Internet.
My sources are here.
Fredrik Samuelsson, 3 Oct, 2018. ”every fourth child in the age of one uses the internet,” Metro. URL: https://www.metro.se/artikel/rapport-vart-fj%C3%A4rde-sp%C3%A4dbarn-anv%C3%A4nder-internet.
Oct, 2017,” Kids under 9 spend more than 2 hours a day on screens, report shows”,CNN.Com. URL: