TV Viewing

A recent study found an association between the amount of TV a child watches and parents who are concerned about the child's TV viewing.

How much time one watches TV is linked to all-cause mortality, says a new study. In addition to the all cause mortality link, watching a lot of TV is also tied to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Watching too much TV is associated with language development lags in children. But, this doesn't mean that TV is causing the problems. There may be more going on with our children's language development than we realize.

In 1994, Dr. Paul Kettl a psychiatrist from Penn State reported that there was a dramatic increase in television viewing correlating with a rise in depression in American youth since World War II.

Television viewing and adolescent weight changes

A new study shows that frequent adolescent television viewing may be correlated with sexual activity. Here's the full story.

There can be no doubt that the Internet has changed the way that our society works.

The advent of cable and satellite dishes, computers, and new technology have caused people's television viewing habits to change over the years. Programming may also be a factor.

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A new study shows that you can foster a smarter child by limiting television at the age of two. Find out why exposing a child to television could affect his academic performance later.

It is becoming very clear from research that television provides a powerful example of how to behave. It is a role model for children that has a very strong negative influence if parents and carers allow indiscriminate use.

Medical experts recommend that infants not be allowed to watch TV, but so many educational DVDs are targeted at children as young as three months. What should a parent do?

Story of Sonya Carson, the mother of neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Ben Carson's story was portrayed in the TNT Movie "Gifted Hands".

A Correlation Between Television Viewing and Aggressiveness

These are the top 5 five must watch new spring television shows for mom in the 2009 season.

The kind of TV programs that your children watch greatly affects their learning, attitude, and values as they grow up. Make sure that you are guiding them properly as they go in front of the television.

The purported design of television and electronic curricula is to make education easier to deliver and attain. However, is it making education easier at the expense of actually learning?

To me, today's American children seem to be a TV-addicted population. So frequently they seem to spend their time inside and sprawled on the couch, taking in yet another hour of Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel when they could be running around outside.

Do you know someone who's addicted to television? Television view carries with it a variety of disadvantages. Here's how television may be harming you and your family.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have completed a survey on the impact of television viewing on children between the ages of 2.5 and 5.5 years of age.

These five stragegies will help your child kick his or her TV habit--painlessly and without whining.

Once children understand their TV limits, parents can encourage other activities such as reading, drawing, and sports to fill the void. And that's the ultimate purpose of PlayLimit

Television watching by children can be very educational and beneficial to their development, but viewing the wrong programs cannot be good.

Nothing wrong with the Grinch and the Peanuts gang, but consider these possibilities for an alternative bit of Christmas entertainment.