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When children are born, they are in a stage of mental, social and creative development. To prove children are undergoing activities to enhance on these skills, they need to be assured by parents to do it by hand. Hence, children aged from birth to 8 years in the 21st are active citizens in the digital age. By this examination, children tend to lose some of their numerical, language, creativity and developmental knowloedge because they are doing this on screen without activating parts of their body. Their is a big gap and small relationship between traditional and digital literacy. Applications of digital devices create loss of productivity because children are learning from a screen instead of "hands-on" skilled learning. When children are stimulated by parents on the use of digital devices, it enables them to think that they are doing the correct thing to face a screen, with no advertisement restrictions, uncontrolled explicit content and no parent controlled features. The exposure of these inappropriate content can not be controlled entirely unless the parents are controlling the digital use and screen time. Despite, parents tend to postpone the worries and strategies against online risks to the future, younger children are already vulnerable to certain online risks including commercials and pop-ups. Providing family based strategies such as helping parents create a mindful approach to digital technology may assist in postively shaping children early development. But in particular, parents should achieve through the use of interacting with children, their opinions and thoughts as to how they use technology and why.

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The findings of the study questionaire can be generalised to a greater population because all children around the world are exposed to digital devies or desire the use of them. But the pilot can not be generalised to the greater population because the participant sample size was small and families were mainly from middle SES ( socioeconomic status) backgrounds. Future research can be obtained more ecologically valid data by directly observing digital device use and measuring the screen time in the homes of individual families. For example, more time to observe children interacting directly with technologies and the family engaging in the co-use of digital devices. Finally, this study can be intended to a relevant population. Thus, it creates an active mediation for parents, as it is a vital to know the uses of digital devices by young children. The study questionnaire and the pilot study, are proved effective at providing a rich picture of the children's use of online technologies and the different roles played by parents. The hypothesis was proven true, as it is that younger children have an increased insight to technology without focusing on the traditional way of learning.

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To emphasis on the current view of the parent's home use of digital devices and screen time usage, the present study obtained a snapshot of how digital devices are carried out within the children and parents at home. A percentage of 80% of the families say that the children dealth easily with tablets and ipads rather than computers. To make reference to the easy use, ipads and tablets are touch screen with easily accessible applications, media and the internet. According to the National daily digital use recommendation made by the Asutralian government, it proposed that "the average daily time children should spend on electronics is less than 20/mins per day. This survery questionaire concludes that children's average digital use time exceeeded the recommened National average. By reason of it being excessive, children spent an average of 80/mins for day on a digital device.With stark contrast to the relevant past studies, parents in the UK reported that their average less than 20/mins on an average. This indicated that their should be restricted boundaries on the time children spent facing digital screens .

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The aim is to effectively address the early childhood screen time concerns raised by parents and to examine the current home digital environments. To achieve this, sixty-nine participants between the years 0-8, (33girls and 36boys) in South East Queensland Australia, will participate in a survey that asks for demographic information about questions about the types of digital devices families provide for their children at home, how much time they spend on it and how easy the devices are used, (1:being very difficult and 5: being very easy. Parents are informed to complete this at home based on their obervations and once they complete this survey questionaire, they are required to return it to the researcher to observe.

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The aim is to explore young children and their parent's experience with digital technology to identify how children are stimulated to their use.  The specific goal of this study is to collect information by interviewing families. To achieve this, a pilot research generated data will be undertaken on families with children. It is focused on interviews and observations with ten families per state in Australia in a home contex. They are to answer the question, "How children between the 0-8 years engage with digital technology", and they are required to answer this question towards their children's behaviour towards the devices such as ipads, tablets and laptops etc, at home. We will observe their online digital technology engagement as well as their potential benefits.

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Brain and the use of technology:
Is the use of digital devices suitable for young children?
It it hypothesised that children between the age of 0-8 are exposed to many hours on digital devices, therefore not suitable.

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Children born in the 21st century are opened to a wide range of digital technologies and use them for absolutely everything. Children are not learning their creative, social and mental skills but instead doing it digitally. This study will provide recent examinations on how children portray the use of digital devices on a daily basis

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Source 1
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/ToddlersAndTablets/RelevantPublications/Young-Children-(0-8)-and-Digital-Technology.pdf
Source 2
http://journal.acce.edu.au/index.php/AEC/article/view/67
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Prior to undertaking the pilot research, a consent was given to the 69 participants and the ten families. The participants were protected from harm by signing a consent before completing the interview. The study questionnaire was confidential with no name or private information exposed. The only piece of information the researchers were exposed to was the participants anonymous response. Participants who were not comfortable with the pilot research or the questionnaire had the full authority to decline or withdrawal their responses at any time. Following the procedure, participants should be able to discuss the procedure and findings with the psychologist