Feb 20 2008
Kids on their butts — and how much tv do you watch?
According to a British survey, children spend most of their lives in front of a screen of some sort.
On average, British children are in front of an electronic screen of some sort for more than five hours a day.
Four out of five children have Internet access at home, and half have broadband, spending an average of 1.9 hours a day online. One-third of children surveyed had their own PC.
Nearly every child had access to a TV at home, and four out of five had one in the bedroom.
The study found that 58% of children watched TV during dinner and 63% watched before they went to sleep.
However, time spent watching TV continues to decline. Children surveyed watched an average of 2.4 hours of TV per day, compared with three hours daily just five years ago.
Five hours a DAY? There is no way I would allow that. My dear daughter grew up with very limited tv/computer time. 2 hours a day in front of a screen, max - choose how to use them carefully. The rest of the time she spent her time DOING stuff.
IMHO, life was meant to be lived, not watched.
How much time do you spend staring at a screen for recreation? (not work related) How much tv do you watch? Thoughts?
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TV for me is next to none unless I’m not feeling well. I spend time online, but it’s usually blogging related.
The hardest to keep from spending too much time watching a screen of some sort, is #3. It’s winter. It’s Saskatchewan. He will go outside if it’s not so cold that’s dangerous, but when forced to be inside it’s harder for him. Some boys just aren’t into “crafts”. He draws a lot… cartoons with the characters he invents (he really is better than Dav Pilky was at the same age) but it is darn hard. Any season other than Winter is a different story.
For me, tv is American Idol … plus Saturday is movie night (DVD rental)
Yup - prairie winters are hard. When doll was little, I’d allow extra “screen” use in winter if it was for something creative, constructive or educational.
At 5-7, winters were spent with Quarky and Quaso - a science experiment interactive computer game. By 13, winter was spent learning html and building bots.
She got me into html — and once had a bot that could go into chat rooms and talk to people with programmed “conversation” based on what people posted. She’d sit back with her arms crossed watching her bot talk to people in IRC and just laugh her butt off because they thought they were talking to a person.
Plus she played hockey and ringette, so those were nights “doing” not watching.
My house rule was “if you don’t have a social life, you don’t have an internet one, either” Never wanted her to be one of those kids that exists solely in the green glow of the Internet.
hi!!
i only watch desperate housewife on tuesday, men in trees on thursday, sometimes… america’s next top model, and any good movies in sky movies….
i practically, is a useless girl.
so, come to think of it, i am a couch potato indeed! *giggles*
You know… give doll a huge hug for me. I talk to you so often and since she doesn’t live at home, don’t get to hear from her as much. Please tell her Auntie Fracas misses her too!
Baby, you don’t LOOK like a couch potato
Fraccy… will do - I’ll give her a hug for you. I never mind an extra hug.