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"You do your best to connect with your family, your children, setting aside family-only time in order to connect with your kids. Family dinners work well, but using smartphones and tablets is a rising trend in bonding with, teaching and pacifying young ones, a recent survey shows. \nThe survey was commissioned by Qualcomm, makers of the Snapdragon processors found in the Samsung Galaxy phones and various tablets.\nThe study found that 53% of parents with children ages 13 or under use mobile technology to calm their children, so you're not the only one passing your phone or tablet to your cranky kid in public. \nNearly 74% of them have downloaded apps specifically for their children.\nTim McDonough, vice president of marketing at Qualcomm told Mashable: \"my little boys learned their multiplication tables through playing a game on a smartphone. \n\"At a very simple level I think that parents are realizing smartphones are becoming tools they can use to help entertain and educate their kids and to stay connected with them.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Strategies for Parents: Using Tech as Consequence\nAll those fears of your child breaking your expensive tech? Turns out only 22% of those surveyed said that their children damaged or lost their mobile device while playing with it. You do want to protect your data, though, so more than half of parents surveyed say they keep their devices password-protected.\nDo you frequently use apps on tablets and mobile phones to engage or lull your children? Let us know in the comments.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, monkeybusinessimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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