TV toddlers 'become aggressive' - Telegraph
Extract:
"The findings, among 1,000 children and published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine journal, come after a psychologist in the UK claimed British children were also spending hours slumped in front of the small screen and it was "the greatest unacknowledged health threat of our time".
Frederick Zimmerman, author of the American study and an associate professor of health services at the University of Washington, said: "Excessive viewing before age three has been shown to be associated with problems of attention control, aggressive behaviour and poor cognitive development."
Dr Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, said children under three should not be allowed to watch any TV."
Watching TV seems a very unnatural activity for small children and I am not surprised at these findings.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Does watching TV cause toddlers to become aggressive?
Posted by Willow at 2:34 pm
Labels: aggressive behaviour, child health, Dr Aric Sigman, Frederick Zimmerman, poor cognitive development
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