Healthy TV Viewing Tips, What Parents can Do
Did you know...
- By age 5, the American child has already spent more time watching TV than she will spend earning a college degree?
- The TV set is on an average of 53 hours a week in homes with preschoolers, compared to 43 hours in the average US household.
- The number of overweight children has doubled since 1998, due in part to sedentary activities such as TV viewing.
Parents can help decrease the harmful effects of TV by screening the type of programming and limiting the amount of time a child watches. The following are suggestions for helping set good television viewing habits: