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Here’s an article from the San Diego Union Tribune, that suggests among other things parents look to parental controls:

By now you’ve probably heard all about the recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which found that kids between 8 and 18 years old spend as much as seven hours and 38 minutes a day — yes, a day — using some form of electronic media, whether it be watching television or using other devices like computers or cell phones. Because so many kids multitask and use more than one medium at a time, the Kaiser study found that today’s children are actually able to cram 10 hours and 45 minutes of media content in each day — yes, each day. The bad news is that all this media consumption might have some negative effects. The study found that nearly half of all heavy media users reported subpar grades of mostly C’s or lower. Only 23 percent of light media users said their grades were in the mostly-C’s-or-lower range.

Most Internet parental control products offer a time-management feature, as do the operating systems of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X.  Many mobile phones, including those offered by ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon offer this feature, but X-Box 360 is the only gaming console that does.  Not all of these controls are created equal, though as some can be fooled by simply resetting the system clock.  Others time management controls are not very flexible and only allow you block whole hours, not smaller increments.