TV Nation (Even The Toddlers)

Are children spending too much time in front of their TVs? A new study says: “Children from 6 months to 6 years old spend, on average, two hours a day with TV, video games and computers – about the same as they spend playing outdoors and three times what they spend reading or being read to, according to the survey of 1,065 parents released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The phenomenon, said the Kaiser researchers, can be linked to the relatively recent avalanche of videos and TV shows aimed at viewers too young to know the difference between Einstein and Elmo.”