News Archive
Countering Tele-visual Assault: Healthy Sensory Nourishment for a Post-Television Age
Saturday 17. of July 2004By: The Mother - Richard House
‘The senses become disordered when too much of a simulated world is inserted between our body and the surrounding world.’
Robert Sardello Ph.D. and Cheryl Sanders M.S.
I can just about remember being in my rural English...
Ban TV to save toddlers’ minds, say scientists
Tuesday 06. of April 2004By: The Times - Sam Lister
No child under the age of two should be allowed to watch television because of the risk of developing attention deficit disorders, according to scientists. Parents who put young children in front of the television are leaving...
Watching TV 'is bad for children'
Tuesday 06. of April 2004By: BBC News
Older children should watch no more than two hours a day, the researchers at the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centre in Seattle said.
Children's progress 'hit by TV'
Monday 15. of March 2004By: BBC News
Young children who watch too much television have impaired language development, research suggests.
A review of studies on the subject for the National Literacy Trust says children aged two to five may benefit from good-quality...
"Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers"
Tuesday 28. of October 2003By: A Kaiser Family Foundation Report - Barbara Jordan
The results of the study Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers are presented during a panel discussion hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Zero to Six takes a look at electronic...
Childhood under Siege: The Rising Tide of Technlogy, Testing and Stress in Children's Lives
Tuesday 25. of March 2003By: U.S. Alliance for Childhood - Edward Miller
In this talk Edward Miller, an education writer and policy analyst from Massachusetts, challenged the current widespread view of the child as a kind of machine, in which the brain is a computer and the heart is a pump. In this...
Watching television harms toddlers, says psychologist
Tuesday 24. of April 2007By: The Guardian
It is a guilty secret for many an exhausted parent: the distracting power of CBeebies. But allowing children under three to watch television can impair their linguistic and social development and puts them at risk of health...