Nation’s youngest children are glued to the tube
80% children younger than 6 watch TV, play video games or use the computer on a typical day. They average about 2 hours of screen time, compared with 48 minutes when they are being read to, the Kaiser Family Foundation concludes in a recent study. The study also show 1/3 of the nation’s youngest children — babies through age 6 — live in homes where the television is on almost all the time,
Labels: Children, Technology
posted by Life Records at 5/28/2006
2 Comments:
Wait, let me turn the tv off so I can hear myself think.
But it is such a good babysitter.
9:10 PM
Ha... When was the last time you could sit for two hours and read to your kids and have them pay attention that long? (that specifically is targeted at 2 year olds)... and most likely, it is not as if the kid is sitting there for a straight two hour block watching tv. Its probably more like 10 minutes, go play, come back, go play, come back.
9:23 AM
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