How children interact with digital media 1 Children are starting on digital devices at ever younger ages, and opinions on the ___1____ of children's digital-media habits are deeply polarised. 2 Jean Twenge, a psychology professor, thinks excessive use of the internet and social media makes children lonely and _____2______ and poses serious risks to their physical and particularly their mental health, sometimes to the point of driving them to suicide. 3 However, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther of the Innocenti research office of Unicef examined various evidence and found less cause for ____3____ than is often suggested. 4 Most of the studies he examined seem to show that the technology helps children _____4_____ with their friends and make new ones. 5 The relationship between the use of digital technology and children's ______5_____, broadly speaking, appears to be u-shaped. 6 Researchers have found that moderate use is ____6____, whereas either no use at all or extreme use could be harmful. 7 What worries some experts more is that ____7____ are becoming part of the middle-class armoury for perpetuating social advantage. 8 Children from well-off homes are enrolled in private classes to learn skills like "How to be a YouTuber", which poorer parents cannot ____8____.