As one mom recently explained on NPR’s Morning Edition, she entered her password, handed the Kindle to her daughter, and then later got a credit card bill for $10,000. Online gaming, meanwhile, has only grown in popularity, with more than 2.6 million gamers around the world today who spend an average of 51 minutes a day not reading books or learning how to knit, according to the Internet Trends 2017 Report from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1995, there were only 100 million people playing online games. That’s a lot of kids buying a lot of virtual acorns.