For all the talk of “helicopter” parents, one might have thought that children’s media use would be subject to a lot of surveillance. generation M 2, the latest report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on recreational media use by young people suggests otherwise. More than 2,000 8- to 18-year-olds were asked if they were subject to any rules about the content or amount of time they spend on television, video games, music, and computers. only a quarter of the kids reported rules for at least one of these mediums that were enforced most of the time, 39 percent reported some rules that were enforced “some of the time or less,” and 16 percent reported no rules of any kind.