Parents of the 10- to 17-year-old crowd are often bewildered by their scions’ immersion in the virtual world.
“You might peek into your kid’s room, and your kid is on MySpace and they’re talking on the phone and they’re texting and IMing and there’s music coming from the iPod–basically, you’re seeing kids who are so technologically adept that parents don’t quite know what to do about it,” says technology researcher Larry Rosen, PhD, professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
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