24 April 2007

Good luck with this one

Dr. Aric Sigman, a prominent psychologist, told a group of British MPs yesterday that the television viewing habits of children should be severely restricted by the adults responsible for them. He believes, citing recent research, that watching as little as one and half hours a day at a young age could be a trigger for attention-deficit disorder, autism or obesity. He believes that children under the age of three should watch no television at all and that from the ages of three to seven it should be restricted to thirty minutes to an hour daily. Then from the ages of seven to twelve he suggest no more than one hour a day, from twelve to fifteen one and a half hours a day and over sixteen only two hours. He believes that children should not have tellies in their rooms.

This will be a very hard sell in Britain and in America, well you may as well just forget it!

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