Poll: Still Too Much Screen Time for Kids
So what are we doing to reduce the hours our kids watch TV? Not much, it turns out. A new poll has found that a bout 25 percent of parents who have children aged two to five say their children get three or more hours of entertainment screen time a day, well beyond recommended limits, according to newswise.com. The news isn't all bad: a little more than half of those parents do try to set some limits by location: banning media devices from places like the bedroom or at mealtime. Here's what the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) had to say about TV and kids: "T he AAP discourages any screen time for children less than two years of age. For older children, the AAP recommends no more than two hours daily. The AAP suggests keeping media devices out of children’s bedrooms, keeping family routines like mealtime screen-free, and setting screen-free days for the whole family." I've flunked about all of those. My son, who'd much rather spend time on th...