55 per cent of parents text their children from within same building

December 12th, 2011, 22:44 Posted By: wraggster

"Dinner's ready" among the most common messages to avoid spoken communication.
Retailer Asda's Pulse of the Nation survey found 20 per cent of parents regularly use mobile phones, tablets, laptops and PCs to reach their children within the home.
The report says most of the messages sent are requests, such as "clean your room", "do your homework" and presumably "remove your skateboard from the top of the stairs". However, the most popular message parents send to their offspring is "dinner's ready" with 13 per cent.
Nathan Mills, Asda’s technology expert, said: "The fact is that technology puts us in touch with more people more often than ever before – and this is as true at home as it is when we’re out and about.
"Communicating with teens, for example, has never been the easiest thing for parents, and now low-cost gadgets are giving us a hotline to their rooms."
Results also show that the most popular form of in-house communication was texting with 55 per cent. This, was followed by Facebook with 20 per cent of parents choosing the social network and 16 per cent making a phone call.

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