TV hurts kids.
This is common sense to anyone who looks at himself honestly while watching TV and compares it to his mental activity while conversing, playing, or reading. Or, perhaps a better way to put it, such an assertion makes intuitive sense if we look at ourselves honestly.
Doesn't really matter. In any event, we need science to explain such simple things before anyone believes it, so here it is:
Too much time in front of the TV reduces children's learning abilities, academic achievement, and even the likelihood of their graduating from university, suggest three new studies. But it may be the quality, not quantity, of the programmes that really matters.
Decades of studies have linked childhood hours in front of the TV with aggressive behaviour, earlier sexual activity, smoking, obesity, and poor school performance. The research has lead the American Academy of Pediatrics to suggest children watch no more than 2 hours of TV per day and that children under 2 years old watch none at all. . .
Kids who watched the least TV ”“ especially between the ages of 5 and 11 ”“ had the highest probability of graduating from university by the age of 26, regardless of IQ or socioeconomic status. While those who watched the most TV, more than 3 hours per day, had the highest chance of dropping out of school without qualifications. . .
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