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by hernews
Posted: Tue., July 15, 2008, 07:37 am
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TUESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Even if young children aren't watching the TV, it may be distracting them from their play and depriving them of developing critical attention skills, a new study says.
When children aged 3 and younger played in a room with a television on that was tuned to adult programming, they played for about 5 percent less time than when there was no background TV. More importantly, when there was no background TV, the children's play was more focused with longer play episodes, the study found.
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by hernews
Posted: Fri., June 27, 2008, 07:23 am
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FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- A simple campout in the backyard may be just what the doctor ordered to help break your kids from an endless cycle of TV, computers and video games.
That's one of the ways the National Wildlife Federation is promoting the evening of June 28 as the Great American Backyard Campout.
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by hernews
Posted: Mon., May 5, 2008, 04:35 pm
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MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- When infants in low-income families are watching television or videos, their mothers seldom speak to them, a U.S. study finds.
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by susanc
Posted: Wed., April 16, 2008, 01:05 pm
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A new documentary was aired yesterday on Frontline (PBS) called "Sick Around the World." This documentary focuses on health care in five capitalistic democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Taiwan.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Mon., February 25, 2008, 07:27 am
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TV Could Be Disrupting Your Kid's Sleep
By Kathleen Doheny
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- It may seem like a good idea: Use a bit of TV viewing to help your young child get to sleep.
But a growing body of research is finding that infants and children under the age of 3 who watch TV -- even too much TV during the day -- struggle with interrupted sleep and irregular bed and naptime schedules.
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