Many parents today consider themselves tech experts, especially when it comes to their phones. In fact, according to the “LG Text Ed Survey,” a national snapshot of texting behaviors among 13 to 17 year olds and parents of 13 to 17 year olds in the United States, 75 percent of parents consider themselves “texters” and 86 percent of those texters have used the medium to communicate with their teens. In fact, 90 percent of texting parents felt closer to their teen as a result of the medium.
Yet, the survey found that parents also engage in questionable texting behaviors and are unaware of their teen’s mobile phone misuse. The survey exposed parents participating in the following behavior:
28 percent of parents admit to engaging in some form of “sexting” and 43 percent of teens admit to doing the same.
Almost half of all parents and teens surveyed admit to texting and driving.
42 percent of parents admit to texting someone while at the dinner table; whereas 69 percent of teens admit to texting at the dinner table.
Additionally, the survey revealed that many parents are unaware of teen mobile phone misuse:
45 percent of teens admit to texting and driving. And only 4 percent of parents believe their teens ever text while driving.
43 percent of teens admit to putting someone down or insulting them in a text, while only 10 percent of parents believe their teens had ever participated in this type of hurtful behavior.
41 percent of teens admit to sending, receiving, or forwarding a text that said something sexual, while only 11 percent of parents thought their teens had ever sexted.
- Dr. Lynne Kenney - all rights reserved
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