Huge, huge pet peeve of mine: people who have their TVs on all the
time, whether they are watching it or not. Now I am not anti-TV – I
watch it, and does my older child. But I just think it's enormously
impolite to have it blaring when someone has come over to see you (like
two people who shall remain nameless but happen to be two males who
share many of my genes and GOD FORBID they miss one second of whatever
major sporting event is on, not that I am annoyed by that or anything
but there is such a thing as Tivo DAMN IT). Three-quarters of all kids
live in homes where the TV is always on.
New research is showing that even background TV – the TV which is always on, even when just "for noise" -- can disrupt a child's normal development and impact their ability to sustain attention.
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