Smartphones for toddlers? Data suggest gadgets as babysitters
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Evidence suggests that for many young parents, smartphones and iPads are the new babysitters.
Zact, a mobile phone services company, has released a survey showing one in four children younger than 2 years old has a smartphone. The same percentage owns a smartphone between 2 and 5.
Most of the toddlers used their smartphones between 1 and 2 hours a day, the survey said.
A recent Pew survey concluded that it's unlikely parents are using smartphones and tablets as babysitters. It suggested they're being used as books.
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