Doctors to parents: Limit kids media time! Use of media is second only to sleeping.
Is this really a surprise? Unrestricted media use leads to violence, cyber-bullying, school problems, obesity, lack of sleep, and more problems. It's not the cause but parents are clueless about the effect media has on kids.
Doctors recommend two hours of media use. This means the Internet for entertainment, Facebook, Twitter, TV and movies; online homework is an exception.
A 2010 report that found U.S. children aged 8 to 18 spend an average of more than seven hours a day using some kind of entertainment media. Many kids now watch TV online and many send text messages from their bedrooms after "lights out," including sexually explicit images by cellphone or Internet, yet few parents set rules about media use, the policy says. "Time to get with it, " health specialists are saying.
Kids now are spending more time with media than in school!! What happened to no TV's in their bedrooms? Kids send sexually explicit pictures and texts after "lights out." And yes, it just may be your kid!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/doctors-kids-media-use_n_4170182.html
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