The TV - ADD Connection

The more television children watch between the ages of 1 and 3, the greater their risk of having attention problems at age 7, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found that each hour of television that preschoolers watched per day increased the risk of attention problems such as attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, by almost 10 percent later on. The study, published in the April issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, adds inattention to the list of harmful effects of excessive television viewing that also includes obesity and violent behavior.

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Which begs the question: Is the solution less TV, or more drugs?

I would not call it inattention, but totally distracted.

To be fair, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children younger than 2 not watch any television. However, according to a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 26 percent of children younger than 2 have televisions in their rooms and 36 percent of families leave the television on almost all of the time, even when no one is watching.

The best kids I ever saw didn't have TV until after they entered school