More Kids Sleep With TV, Study Finds

October 28th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Rachel Emma Silverman
Wall St Journal
October 28, 2011

Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidelines affirming its position that children under age two avoid screen time, including programs watched on TVs, computers or smartphones.

Of course, despite the recommendations, many young children still spend a lot of time in front of screens. But how much?

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that studies media, set out to analyze how young people spend their screen time. The group surveyed nearly 1,400 parents and in a new report, found that kids from birth to age eight spend an average of 1.44 hours watching TV or videos in a typical day, compared to just under a half-hour reading, listening to music or playing video games.

Among infants, some 47% of babies up to age one watch TV or DVDs, and those who do spend an average of nearly two hours a day doing so. (Among all kids in that age group, children are read to an average of just 23 minutes a day.)

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