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To Cut a kids TV Time, parents should impose restrictions consistently

Categories: Research, your health, children's Health09: 36 amJune 14, 2010E-mail share print comments () Facebook stumble Upon Reddit Twitter Feed what's this? participation by Chao Deng

This is a constant fight for children know they should not watch TV, but as you unglue them on the screen?

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He better not do so more than 2 hours a day.

Boy in front of T.V. It is better not to istockphoto.com do more than 2 hours a day.

Recent studies suggest that set time-out settings screen and is consistent with them may make the difference.

There is much room for improvement. study published in July Pediatrics found approximately 1 in 4 children spends more than 2 hours, watching TV or playing video games. Time spent in front of the screen has increased, as children got older.Boys spent more time on the front set than girls.

Susan a. Carlson, epidemiologist for disease control and prevention measures, who headed the research, including more than 7,000 families, sympathizes with parents.

She sees his son 2 1/2-year return of daycare having learned about the latest cartoon characters like Dora and Nemo. " When you have a child, you should realize is embedded in our society, "says Carlson.

But Carlson says, it is also seen parents successfully Promote healthier habits television. Some budget shows their children can view and the introduction of rules on content instead of time.So far she is limiting its own son to 20 minutes each day.

Researchers interviewed thousands of children ages 9 to 15 and their parents.Less than half the parents said they "always" or "very often" television time constraints made for their children.

An important factor was that the parents knew that recommended screen timeout is less than 2 hours a day.For children under two shouldn't watch TV at all.

About one-quarter of the parents thought recommended limit on TV and videogames time was 3 hours or more.No wonder their children were more likely to finish watching TV more.

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