It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.