A mom yelling out the window to tell her son that it’s Prince Spaghetti Day has been replaced with a text.
That’s one of the findings of a poll of 2,000 parents, which notes that six in 10 parents these days send a text to tell their kids that dinner’s ready — even if they’re all in the same house.
The survey, which was commissioned by Cricket Wireless, also polled parents about their kids’ tech use. Seventy percent say they trust their kids with their smart devices. In fact, for all the negative headlines, 66% believe tech is beneficial for their kids’ social skills.
Fifty-five percent say they got their kids a smartphone for “emergency purposes.” Two-thirds say their kids would have access to technology even if the parents tried to keep it away from them.
And while 65% say they’ve given their kids phones without Internet access, 54% purposely got their kids a flip phone, though some of that was because of their own nostalgia.
Speaking of nostalgia, the poll asked kids aged 6 to 18 about various items from back in the day: nearly half couldn’t identify a landline; just 28% knew what a floppy disk was; and only 26% knew how an answering machine worked.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.