{"id":11953,"date":"2016-04-27T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2017-09-24T07:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:17:22","slug":"connected-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/connected-kids\/11953\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising a connected kid"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Freddie Mercury may have belted out Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?<\/a><\/em> over 40 years ago, today\u2019s parents are faced with the stark reality that their children are growing up in a world where reality also comes in the virtual format.<\/p>\n

It is a far cry from when you and I were growing up. We\u2019re raising a new generation of digital natives who will never have known the world without a smartphone. At Kaspersky Lab, we\u2019re interested in changes in how people look at the way that we connect and leverage our online world.<\/p>\n

\"Raising<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, we conducted a survey called Growing Up Online. In the first installment<\/a> of the research, we posted on what kids are hiding from their parents<\/a>. Today, we will look at how connected our kids really are<\/a>. When I first received my copy of the data, I took a few deep breaths and also a hard look at how I think of my kids and how their connectivity is unparalleled to anything we have seen before.<\/p>\n

The main findings of the study offered some interesting high-level executive bullets that will make any parent stop and re-read what they just glanced over.<\/p>\n