A mistake by many parents

According to an article in the New York Times by Tara Parker Pope, a way to keep your child healthy is to keep a television out fo his or her room. It is estimated that at least half most likely more than half of American children have a television in their bedroom. And recent research suggests a link between this and possible health and educational problems. Limiting what your child watches with parental control is half the battle, the other half is controlling where they watch tv. Most parents have reported ebign un aware fo how much tv their children are watching at night time. This leads to less sleep causing poorer performance in school. This also makes them spend less time on school work and decreases the time kids read more and more. In a study on children ages 12 to 14, more than 40 percent of them smoked. Who would have thought all this television could elad to increased smoking in children and young teens. It possibly may be because they spend so much time in thier rooms, having less involvement with their parents, which allows them to get mislead. And obviously studies have also shown that the chidren who have televisions in their bedrooms tend to be heavier than other children or perhaps even obiese. The fact remains that children no matter how young nowadays have a television in their room, even as young as kindergarten kids, and they all know how to turn it on and watch what they want to watch. This is a problem because children should be doing something else with all this time that they spend watching television. Growing up I watched tv in the living room, and when I was young I remember my mother telling me it was late and time to go to bed, end of story.