Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV

An anonymous reader sends this quote from The Guardian: "Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television altogether, according to a paper in an influential medical journal published on Tuesday. A review of the evidence in the Archives Of Disease in Childhood says children's obsession with TV, computers and screen games is causing developmental damage as well as long-term physical harm. Doctors at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which co-owns the journal with the British Medical Journal group, say they are concerned."

Comments

First sentence is a doozy.

[Guano_Jim]

Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol on the amount of time children spend watching screens

I agree totally. Three-year-olds get really belligerent after a beer or two.

Re:First sentence is a doozy.

[Anonymous Coward]

try a light beer, I find my three year old actually prefers it.

Re:First sentence is a doozy.

[cybernanga]

Children under 13 should be banned from pubic schools.

Indeed!

Re:First sentence is a doozy.

[Ol Biscuitbarrel]

Give him a break, he's a shitfaced 2 year old.

Re:First sentence is a doozy.

[Alien Being]

Did you mean "thought control" or was that just some dark sarcasm?

Re:First sentence is a doozy.

[flyingsquid]

Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol on the amount of time children spend watching screens

I agree totally. Three-year-olds get really belligerent after a beer or two.

Really? Mine usually asks the girl next door if she'd like to come over and play doctor. She always says no, then he gets moody and quietly stares into his sippy cup. After that, it's outside, and after a couple of laps around the yard in his Power Wheels, he usually ends up hitting the rhododendron.

I guess every kid is a bit different. But that's what makes being a parent so great!

Mitt Romney was right

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to fire Big Bird.

PASS MORE LAWS

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't have enough laws pertaining to how we parent children. PASS MORE NOW PLEASE!

I want a government official to come to my home and verify how much TV my little girl watches every day. It's important that this happens because I'm a moron and can't control myself. I also assume you are even dumber and perhaps the best thing to do would be to just take all the children away and have the government deal with them. They could return them once they're all grown up.

Are You Kidding?

[flyneye]

C'mon, I took my first television set apart by 3. Sissies!
Keep them away from strong magnets, Tesla coils, acids and bases.
Some realistic adults should take control here, please.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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I'll give you my Fisher Price EZ clean remote...

[julian67]

...when you take it from my soft, warm, vomit stinking, slippery, snotty, infectious podgy hands.

waaaaah.

I am 45 and three quarters.

Re:I'm fine...

[Longjmp]

I watched TV for years...

And now you ended up on slashdot, makes you think, doesn't it? ;-)

Re:About time, really.

[Anonymous Coward]

I just grew up to be an adult steeped in both television and video games.

Re:About time, really.

[Anonymous Coward]

another data point.
I remember as a child, all the old people in the room watching football games during thanksgiving.
They are all dead now.
The football games are still televised.

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[Alien Being]

Case in point. OP watched teletubbies.