How much TV are our children watching?

How many hours of TV are our children watching? Well, during holidays the answer can be as many hours as they’re awake, especially if you live in the middle-class urban neighborhoods where playing space is limited if not non-existent.

Think about it; in most households the TV comes on as soon as people get up, and stays on as background noise even when no-one is watching. Children grow up knowing that being indoors means TV. Such unlimited and unsupervised TV does little favour to children, if anything, the results are on the contrary. Read more…