Tweens, Teens, and Screens: What Our New Research Uncovers

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For today’s tweens and teens, technology is part of the fabric of everyday life. They’re watching TV on lots of devices and using smartphones and tablets to maximum advantage — texting, researching, sharing, connecting — and generally causing lots of hand-wringing among parents who don’t know how much is too much. As parents, we want to find ways to use media to support healthy development, learning, and community-building.

That’s why we’re pleased to release a new report, the Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Tweens , which paints a more complete picture of how tweens and teens are using media. Some stats aren’t surprising: Here are more findings: Of that, tweens average more than four and a half hours of screen media use a day and teens more than six and a half hours.