Txtin aint bd 4 u…

It’s time to stop worrying about your kids tapping away on their handsets because according to a study published by the British Psychological Society the whole activity is actually good for them.

The study, which looked at 88 children from around Great Britain from between the ages of 10 and 12, found out that everyday texters actually performed better at reading activities despite being used to the abbreviated lingo that they use when text messaging their chums.

All those people that had a pop at text messaging aren’t smiling any more…

Most of the British population think that the children of today drop vowels and use abbreviations because of their poor understanding of the English language or simply because they think they are just lazy.

However the study actually suggests that their skills at shortening words and using abbreviations is actually helping their reading skills rather than hindering them.

The study was taken by Coventry University and tested the children’s skills by getting them to create text messages in response to different scenarios.

The researchers then compared the number of times the children used the “text speech” with tests that looked at their reading, vocabulary and phonological skills.

Give me print, it doesn’t matter in what format…

The study discovered that as long as the child was exposed to print, no matter where it is found, leads to better literacy skills and the researchers concluded that those children using the shorter “text speech” were actually more literate than those who didn’t…

It’s good to know that text messaging won’t be giving us cancer, unlike social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace which have recently been targeted by the British Psychological Society.

According to Dr Aric Sigman we are in greater risk of eventually getting cancer as we are spending more time on the social networking sites rather than actually going out an experiencing life.

What…we’re doing something right?

So it’s good news that we’re actually being told that something that we’re doing and doing to our kids is actually right – who knows maybe we will have a country full of playwrights in 15 years?

But if it’s not one thing it’s the other as a new skin disease has been uncovered called “PlayStation Palms”.� A young girl in Switzerland got the disease after continued hours on playing on her PSP.

If ever anyone created a mobile that we didn’t have to touch then we’d be in business!