{"id":16829,"date":"2017-03-07T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:24:39","slug":"cardiffs-kids-spend-longest-in-the-uk-on-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiffs-kids-spend-longest-in-the-uk-on-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff’s kids spend longest in the UK on tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children in Cardiff spend 78 minutes on technology after school – the highest in the UK according to research by Legoland.
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The study found that the\u00a0average time\u00a0UK parents\u00a0allow their children to spend on technology after school is 71 minutes.<\/p>\n

Catherine Scott, from Cardiff, is a freelance journalist and has three children under eight. She says she worries about her children’s health when it comes to technology: “Posture is very important to me – and when you see children on these handheld devices and the way they are looking down on their it puts such a bad pressure on that neck.<\/p>\n

“Their bones are still fusing together, they are still growing. I have read surveys and they have called it iPhone neck and it is actually a phenomenon which is being researched. It can have a really negative affect on children.<\/p>\n

“I know how difficult it can be when your kids are kicking and screaming and you think they can just have the iPad! 78 minutes does seem excessive though.”<\/p>\n

But Darrick Evansen, a research fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Psychology, says he’s not worried about\u00a0Cardiff children using technology.<\/p>\n

He says: “I think we all anticipate it to go up in the future – I am not concerned about child being on their device for 78 minutes.<\/p>\n

“It could be a child talking to their friends about maths homework, but I am not sure if that’s what being referred to in this report.<\/p>\n

“The 78 minutes does seem high – but to me it actually seems a lot lower than some figures I have heard about adult television use.<\/p>\n

“We would all like to see the number lower – but in the future if that number increases I would want to see it in a way in which is important to the development of young kids.”<\/p>\n

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The research from Legoland also shows:<\/p>\n