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TV Watching Linked to Short Attention Span in Kids

  • April 05, 2004

The more television infants and toddlers watch, the more likely they are to have trouble paying attention and concentrating during their early school year. Although there has been other research on how many hours of TV very young kids watch, this is the first study on how early viewing might affect attention span. Every added hour of watching TV increased a child's odds of having attention problems by about 10 percent. Kids watching about three hours a day were 30 percent more likely to have...