Or, how the smartphone may be quietly teaching the little ones to forget about PCs.
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If you have a child in the next few years, there's a very reasonable chance they'll be ably swiping on your smartphone or tablet well-before they're old enough to read.
According to a national study by Common Sense Media that interviewed 1,463 parents with children from zero to eight, mobile devices have successfully infiltrated almost 50 percent of households and are increasingly changing the way children consume media.
Here are a few interesting bits from the study:
Nearly 40 percent of children (zero to eight) under two have used a mobile device.
And six percent of children under two use them daily. Daily!
