More Than Two Hours of TV Daily Affects Children's School Readiness, Study Finds
By Christina Samuels on March 1, 2017 7:27 PM
Young children who watch more than two hours a day of television show decreased skills in math and executive functioning—the collective term for cognitive abilities related to attention, focus, and self-control—with low-income children faring the worst compared to children from higher-income families who viewed the same amount of TV.
The study was published online in February by the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The association between television viewing and a child's math and executive functioning skills was highest for children in families at or below about $21,200 a year, which was the poverty line at the time the data was collected about 8 years ago.The effects on middle-income children, which in this study was defined as an average of $74,200 a year for a family of four, were smaller than for less-affluent children, but statistically significant. But no effect on school readiness was noted on television-watching children who came from families at or above $127,200 a year, according to the research.
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