Thursday, July 07, 2005

Youth Librarians for your consideration: TV & Toddlers

In your daily contact with families as a librarian, how many check out videos/dvds for the little ones?
According to the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER,
TV -- any TV -- harms toddlers, study claims reading, memory adversely affected.

This was on the ALSC discussion elist this week, a recent analysis relies on caregivers' responses to a national survey of about 1,800 children. Children younger than 3 watched an average of 2.2 hours of television a day; the daily average increased to 3.3 hours for children between 3 and 5.

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