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Last Updated: Monday, 19 February 2007, 12:49 GMT

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Teachers back TV viewing concerns

Children should be playing rather than watching television, says report
Teachers have backed concerns about the negative impact of TV on children.
John Bangs of the National Union of Teachers says children can arrive in school "tired and exhausted" from watching too much television.

This follows a report by psychologist Dr Aric Sigman listing 15 health problems that previous studies have attributed to excessive TV viewing.

The report warns that television could contribute to childhood obesity, eyesight problems and hormonal changes.

Dr Sigman warns that access to television should be limited - and that toddlers should not watch any at all.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6375235.stm

[Sincinnatislink]

This has been proven a few hundred times during my life.
(Insert anti-capitalist rant)

[ella]

[jlb]

It's not exactly rocket science that TV comes with a host of social problems: obesity, violent behavior, poor school performance, etc, etc. Stop the studies and use common sense!

Also, the people who use TV as a babysitter for hours a day should never have been parents in the first place.

[ddeubel]

The level of violence on TV these days is scary. But I don't think it is a direct contributor to individual behaviour. All depends how you watch it and what else you do in your life. But for so many, it is fertile soil.

Anyone read Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death"? A book that covers not how TV translates into violence but, as a communication medium, trivializes the world and does not allow for real communication and societal debate. It makes everything seem cartoonish, even that which isn't a cartoon. TV as the primary means of communication in America (not personally but communally), leads to a world where the youth have poor and passive/reactive communication skills and where those issues of suppossed seriousness are trivialized as they pass across a screen.

DD

[ella]

I just added that to my Amazon wishlist, ddeubel, thanks!