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Monday, July 19, 2010

Too much screen time linked to attention problems

Children and young adults who spend excessive amounts of time in front of the TV or playing computer video games risk impairing their attention span, a new American study reported in HealthDay News suggests.

Psychologist Edward Swing, a graduate student at Iowa State University, found that young people who spent more than two hours a day were between 1.6 and 2.2 times more likely to develop greater-than-average attention problems compared to those whose viewing time was less than two hours a day.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Preschoolers and TV a bad mix: study

Culture

Parents who let young children watch too much television are jeopardizing their across-the-board development, according to a new study reported by the Montreal Gazette.

Researchers at the University of Montreal, the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre and the University of Michigan based their findings on interviews with the parents of 1,314 Quebec children. Parent-reported data on the amount of time children spent viewing TV at 29 and 58 months old was compared with assessments of the children’s performance in grade four. They concluded that the degree of impairment by the time the children turned 10 was both significant and far-reaching.

Monday, February 15, 2010

School “text ed” program launched

Culture

The Winnipeg-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection is launching a pilot program this month aimed at teaching children the potential dangers of texting, such as being vulnerable to sexually explicit messages and images, luring, invasion of privacy and harassment.

“The explosion of texting and cell phones is something teachers haven’t been well-equipped to address,” spokeswoman Signy Arnason told CanWest News Service. “That’s the purpose of this: to get in early and tackle these issues before we’re faced with a major problem.”

Monday, February 15, 2010

Let kids decide their after-school activities

Culture

Parents may hope that with the right training their children can become a world-class athlete or entertainer, but Montreal child psychologist Dr. Amir Georges Sabongui believes all they might actually be doing is causing burnout and depression.

As the National Post reported, Sabongui recommends that parents take the pressure off their children to be the best they can in an extracurricular activity they may not enjoy, and instead let them decide what activity they want to pursue.

Monday, November 16, 2009

No TV for toddlers, paediatricians urge

Culture

Canada’s paediatricians will soon be urging parents never to let children under two watch any amount of television, the Montreal Gazette reported.

The new policy, which the Canadian Paediatric Society is expected to unveil shortly, will amend the current policy that recommends children of all ages be limited to no more than two hours of TV-viewing a day.

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HEARD AROUND

“Sarah Coyne, professor of family life at Brigham Young University, co-authored a recent study on media aggression and found that out of 120 hours of programming, an average of 52 acts of hostility (physical and verbal) are broadcast per hour on reality TV. Non-reality programming contained only 33 such incidents per hour. Coyne concludes, ‘[Programming is] producing this culture of being mean to each other,’ Coyne said. ‘We're setting up our culture to being overreactive.’ (The study was published in June's Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.)”

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