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Maybe I read this too quickly, but it seems like they're extrapolating from a fairly obvious "Don't let your one year old watch TV ten hours a day" to "Don't le
by colomon 15y ago
Maybe I read this too quickly, but it seems like they're extrapolating from a fairly obvious "Don't let your one year old watch TV ten hours a day" to "Don't let your one year old watch any media at all", without any actual research evidence cited to back up that leap.
Or to put it another way, I'm really seriously doubting I measurably harmed our boy by letting him watch 15 minutes of traditional music videos a day when he was a toddler. (Mostly Liz Carroll, Peter Horan, and Daniel Payne, as I recall.)
- xutopia 15y agoThe study also refers to heavy use but does not define what heavy means.
- estevez 15y agoHeavy media use in a household is defined as one in which the television is on all or most of the time.
- nknight 15y agoWhat the heck is "all or most of the time"? Which time? What if everyone including the child is regularly out of the house for all but a few waking hours per day? "the television" -- which one? Does the one in the teenager's bedroom count? How do computers factor in? Please tell me they used stricter and more thorough criteria than that for "heavy media use".