Parents spend about 96 hours fighting with their children during the screen time every year.
These amazing statistics mean that hundreds of battles between parents and children are caused by modern technology.
This is according to a new survey that included 2000 children's parents in kindergarten to the fifth grade, which aims to investigate how screens affect the relationships between parents.
Behind these conflicts lies in a deeper concern: fear of two -thirds (67 %) of parents fear that they are losing valuable moments with their children due to screen addiction.
More than that, 41 % of parents said they are afraid that they are completely losing their young child in front of technology.
The study, conducted by speakers' research on behalf of Angelac, a suitable browser for children, revealed the largest concern of parents about the lives of their children online, including exposure to online predators (51 %), transverse exposure to the inappropriate content (46 %), and screen addiction (45 %).
Other large concerns include electronic bullying (44 %), children looking for inappropriate content (40 %), negative social media effect (37 %), and negative effects on mental health (37 %).
About three out of five parents (61 %) are concerned that many of the screen time is to replace the important elements of childhood development, such as building strong social skills and sympathy.
Six out of ten parents who allow their children to use the Internet that their time online are spent without supervision.
“This poll explains how technology is currently compatible with families instead of alliance with it,” said Tim Ests, CEO and co -founder of Angeq. “Our children lose years of their childhood – the precious time will never return – to the exploitative products that add to them. We believe that technology should educate and empower families, not pay attention and divide them – which begins by giving parents easier tools to manage screen time without daily conflict.”
Parents reported the side effects of excessive screen time, including irritation (27 %), mood fluctuations (24 %), and full seizures (22 %).
Other ripple effects included a decrease in attention with non -internet -related activities such as homework (19 %), high levels of anxiety (14 %), and sleep troubles (14 %).
Children find increasingly developed ways to keep the screen time, as parents discover their children sneaking devices behind their appearance (39 %), accessing completely different devices (20 %), and changing controls or permissions without knowing their parents (18 %).
Other solutions included children who take advantage of “emergency” or “educational” (15 %) situations, create new user accounts (13 %), use Siri or Voice orders to open applications (13 %).
When children resist turning off the Internet, parents recognize 65 % of time. The parents of General Ze, more than any other generation, said they gave “often” (28 %).
“This style of resistance and surrender creates the dynamics of strength that undermines parental roles and enhances screen -based behavior in children,” said Estis.
These conflicts are more likely to lead to dinner (64 %), which disrupts the important family bonding time.
It focuses the most common differences along the permissible time (43 %), types of content or applications that children can access (18 %), and require parents to watch videos or games (18 %).
Half of the parents (52 %) who allow their children to access the Internet that they want to wait longer before giving their children access to Internet devices.
This was the most prominent regret between the fathers of General Z (63 %), compared to thousands of years (53 %) and Gen Xers (50 %).
The approaches to many parents at the screen time are affected by their own childhood experiences with technology, as 34 % said that it affected the style of paternity and motherhood to limit their children's access to the Internet.
Despite these challenges, parents have admitted the positive aspects of the screen time, including watching their children exploring their interests (60 %), accessing educational content (59 %), the ability to learn digital skills (58 %), and a culture of culture (25 %), the opportunity to communicate with other children similar online (24 %).
“These results highlight the accurate balance law faced by parents, and they want to protect childhood while preparing children for a digital world,” added Estes. “We realize that the screen time is not bad by its nature, but today most options. We want to palm how children use technology to create healthy habits that enable young people to identify ideas and create them in the real world. We are committed to helping families to set borders working, so technology remains a tool to boost childhood, and not to move away from them.”
Survey methodology:
The researchers have surveyed 2000 parents who have children in kindergarten until the fifth grade; The survey was assigned by angelq, its management and management online through the research of the speakers from March 7 to 11 2025.
