A new cultural and psychological phenomenon — digital child-hood is determined by the special social situation of the development of a modern child, which changes the forms of his/her interaction with the outside world, forms new values and social practices, and af ects the personal and cognitive development of children and adolescents. Technology is advancing fast, as are new generations, everyone has recently been fascinated by the f rst digital Z children, but Australian demographer and researcher Mark McCrindle has coined the new generation name. Alpha children are now no more than eleven years old, our research is devoted to the problem of the Internet addiction of this generation. T e relevance of the study is due to the fact that the problem of modern youth and children who do not break away from gadgets has been of cially recognised. T e World Health Organisation has included in the new ICD-11 classifier addiction to computer and video games (6C51) — Gaming disorder is characterised by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour. A child’s mobile device f rst appears at the age of 2, more than 60% of children aged 4-6 have their own smart-phone or tablet, and by the age of 11, the indicator reaches 99%. Almost 61% of children violate the parental timelines for using the network. More than 50% of parents complain about the amount of time their child spends online.
