A recent study involving 60 four year old children found that a child’s mental function can be temporarily diminished after watching only nine minutes of a fast paced cartoon (in this case, SpongeBob SquarePants). The SpongeBob watchers were compared against two other groups of children who either watched a much slower-paced show, Caillou, or asked [...]

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The average preschooler is spending about four hours in front of a screen each day – two times more than the recommended maximum.  Screen time includes watching movies or television, using the computer or playing video games. A study that began in 2001 and was recently published in the Journal of Pediatrics, recorded screen time habits [...]

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