Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ...
by blobbers on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:08PM
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I definitely sympathize with what you're saying, but 4.5 hrs (on avg!) still seems like a lot. But there are alternatives.
That said, I see working involved parents that hand their kids an iPad the minute they get home from daycare so I suppose it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
I'm still a bit shocked that the distribution would result in 4.5 hrs on average. The bullet points from the referred page were actually more interesting:
"TV viewing among kids is at an eight-year high. On average, children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV—watching television, DVDs, DVR and videos, and using a game console."
[http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv]
I think this implies that kids playing video games (which at that age is mostly shape matching, colors, words, vocabulary) is included in television.
That said, I see working involved parents that hand their kids an iPad the minute they get home from daycare so I suppose it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
I'm still a bit shocked that the distribution would result in 4.5 hrs on average. The bullet points from the referred page were actually more interesting:
"TV viewing among kids is at an eight-year high. On average, children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV—watching television, DVDs, DVR and videos, and using a game console." [http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv]
I think this implies that kids playing video games (which at that age is mostly shape matching, colors, words, vocabulary) is included in television.