Juliana Sanchez, 5, and her brother, Francisco Sanchez Jr., 2, watch children's programming on YouTube on their parent's cell phones at their home on March 9, 2015 in Mountain House, Calif. Watching digital video on hand-held devices is the new normal for tots, tweens and teens. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
SAN DIEGO: On weekdays in the Larsen household, Kirsten, 12, and Soren, 15, get up early and park themselves on the couch before school. But they do not turn on the TV.
Instead, the youngsters each pull out their respective phones and fire up YouTube to get a dose of videos, essentially acquiring the information they need to know before encountering peers.
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