Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
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I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
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.
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.
My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.
I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.
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.
Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.
The kids are a big part of my schedule.
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
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