Parent-Child Interactions Negatively Impacted By Background TV | Psydir News

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Parent-Child Interactions Negatively Impacted By Background TV | Psydir News

More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one's watching. A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children - and finds that the effect is negative. The study, in the September/October 2009 issue of the journal Child Development, was carried out...

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Tags: Parenting, Children's Health