TV Viewing Hampers Children's Creativity, Time Spent with Family says New Study

By Terry Vanderheyden
AUSTIN, Texas, February 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –

Children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively, according to research from The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital appearing in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics.
By studying children’s activities over 24-hour periods, Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues provide evidence for the first time that supports the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) television viewing recommendations. AAP recommends that children under the age of two should not watch television and children older than two should watch no more than two hours of television daily...

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