A new report suggests that television may be playing a starring role in your child’s sex education. Exposure to some forms of TV is a corrupting influence on children, leading teens who watch sexy programs into early pregnancies and children who play violent video games to adopt aggressive behavior, researchers said on Monday.

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Here’s one simple way to keep your children healthy: Ban the TV in their bedroom.

My Take?

Reuters Health  is reporting a new study suggesting that children who regularly exercise and limit their time in front of the TV and computer are much less likely to be overweight or obese.

My Take?

Reuters Health is reporting that having the television on in the background while pre-schoolers play with their toys disrupts their efforts to sustain attention, even when they don’t pay much attention to it, and may harm their development. The research is published in the current issue of the journal Child Development.

My Take?

(From God’s Design for the Highly Healthy Child by Dr. Walt Larimore. All rights reserved)

For a variety of healthy reasons, more and more families have chosen to pull the plug on television.

They may do it to promote family closeness, to better control what their children are exposed to, or to stimulate their children’s dreams and creativity.

You may be amazed by the positive changes in television-free homes documented by professor Barbara Brock of Eastern Washington University.

Tips for Taming Television

(From God’s Design for the Highly Healthy Child by Dr. Walt Larimore. All rights reserved)

Television viewing doesn’t have to be out of control. Parents can set limits and teach children to make wise viewing choices. Consider the following suggestions (adapted from a sidebar in Dr. Daphne Miller’s WebMD article titled “Television’s Effects on Kids: It Can Be Harmful”).

A new study confirms what I’ve been saying for years – children who have a TV in their bedroom are less likely to be highly healthy or have healthy habits.

This study followed 781 teens and reported on their television viewing patterns, study habits and grades, diet and exercise, and interaction with their family.

Compared to those teens with no TV in the bedroom, the 2/3’s of teens that did watched TV four to five hours more per week.