Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games, and surfing the Web is strongly associated with a wide range of health problems among kids, including obesity and smoking.

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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 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.