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levels are linked to early puberty. A study carried out on the Panorama programme asked volunteers to monitor their children’s viewing habits and their corresponding behaviour for a week. The families’ televisions, games consoles and computers were then taken away for one week and parents again monitored their children’s behaviour. During the no TV week, the families spoke to each other more, played games together, siblings reported getting on with each other better, the whole family slept better and parents said that it was easier to get children to do their homework. As TV is here to stay, what’s the answer? Just as you would monitor family’s diets for salt and sugar intake, then it’s possible to monitor your family’s ‘TV intake’. Dr Sigman recommends no TV for the under threes and a scale of hours per day for older children. I believe that quality as well as quantity of viewing is important.
TV NIGHTMARES Stuart BSc(Hons) MSc(Chiro) DC Consultant Osteomyologist - www.spinalcarecentre.co.uk No, I’ve not decided to review the latest reality TV offering: I’m referring to the 16+ hours each week (at conservative estimates) that our children spend slumped, glassy-eyed staring at a flickering screen. The average 6 year old will have spent one whole year of his life watching television. And adults are worse: at the end of the average lifetime we will have spent the equivalent of 24 hours a day for 12 years doing nothing but watching TV.
Rather than turning on the TV out of habit, it can be valuable to plan your own and your children’s programme viewing and to watch the programmes together and use them as point of discussion. If your child knows that they are limited to, say, one hour of TV on a school night, that they are going to be more discerning in their viewing choices as well as having more time for active play, reading, family time and homework. It’s not for me to suggest activities to do as that wouldn’t give you opportunity to use your imagination but there is endless inspiration from books, local voluntary organisations, libraries and leisure centres.
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