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By News Staff | September 15th 2009 12:00 AM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
Over one third of American pre-schoolers live in homes where the television is on most of the time, even if no one's watching, and a new study says the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children is definitely negative.

The researchers studied about 50 1-, 2-, and 3-year-olds, each of whom was with one parent, at a university child study center.   Half of the one-hour session, parents and children were in a playroom without TV; in the other half-hour, parents chose an adult-directed program to watch , like Jeopardy. The researchers observed how often parents and children talked with each other, how actively involved the parents were in their children's play, and whether parents and children responded to each other's questions and suggestions.

When the TV was on, the researchers found, both the quantity and the quality of interactions between parents and children dropped. Specifically, parents spent about 20 percent less time talking to their children and the quality of the interactions declined, with parents less active, attentive, and responsive to their youngsters.

"Although previous research found that background television disrupts young children's solitary play, this is the first study to demonstrate its impact on the quantity and quality of parent-child interactions," according to the researchers. "Given that high-quality parent-child interaction plays an important role in children's development, the study challenges the common assumption that background TV doesn't affect very young children if they don't look at the screen," the researchers added. "We need to pay greater attention to children's early, chronic exposure to TV."

The study in the journal Child Development was done by researchers at the University of Massachusetts.

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The Great American Neanderthal, his habits, his lifestyle, falling to rapid extinction from the Americas as we speak! Unable to maintain his unsustainable lifestyle, as world resources driven by scarcity are less available to him! His “Smoke Stack Industries” dead, His "Rust Belt' a fading reality of his times, His great factories moved to Asia, Even the mighty GM(America) on welfare, while GM(China) turns 30% profit this year? His sources of oil, fuel supported GMO'ed corn, soon to go unfertilized by the scarcer and expensive oil resource, Now, even Iran turning against his survival, selling the South Azadegan Oil fields - the greatest oil discovery in the middle East, in the past thirty years - to China, not America! The astounding American Capital migration to the Chinese "Yuan" and the Beijing, Shanghai and Hang Seng stock markets! American business ventures at home, starved from that same Capital to invest! The American dollar plummeting to all time lows, still falling like a stone, great inflationary forces and the greater depression hiding in the folds of the next normal down cycle of the capitalist economy! Envision great hulking American Neanderthals,, no oil, no cars, no food, save for vegetarian fare, no heat for homes, no air conditioning, great McMansions, foreclosed, falling to ruins, Detroit city, a "Third World" Johannesburg in his midst! SEE: http://uprooted.jessicareeder.com/2009/09/detroit-and-the-100-dollar-hou... Don't believe me! You worry about TV in the background of his life? Most are on the "Soup-lines' or in Shanty towns, Hoovervilles, Tent cities, hidden well, on the outskirts of towns, Exported there by the likes of New York City, by prepaid, one way bus tickets! Goddammit! It was on CNN! see Dr. Oz - he witnessed for us! A great hulking high calorie American Neanderthal, sick with lip cancer, unable to get even morphine for the pain! dying in the slums, disenfranchised from the corporate based medical insurances and no recourse but to die, un-aided, third world style in American streets! Saved by Dr. Oz! A fact of current day American realities! His whole breed at threat to early, forced, unemployability and certain starvation, lack of any medical care by corporate interests and their almighty ROI! Good bye! great loveable, hulking, muscle bound, high calorie intake ,American Neanderthal, Thank you for all the cars you built, steel you smelted, coal you dug, minerals you mined, streets you constructed, great railways you pushed West, ships you welded, Ports canals you dug with your bare hands, Truck-loads you hauled through the night, Sky scrapers you erected, food you farmed, these many years, levees you filled, fish you caught, But: We have hydraulics now, and electromechanical powers! Computer driven, untiring, no unions, no drunken brawls, no cumbersome offspring to contend with, no schools required, no need of large motor cars and freeways to move them on, no 'burbs full of brats and drunken whore-wives to police! We don't need you anymore! Can't afford you anymore! Are set free of you now! We don't even give a Shiite if you have children, you have been "Disenfranchised" expelled from the mainstream of this society! Stop breeding! Go and die! You are now an encumbrance we reject and deny! Asia and our new found powers serve us now, and we will be glad to see your end on earth, great hulking high calorie burning American Neanderthals! Your children, not our corporate concern!

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