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The Bedroom Set
(And We're Not Talking About Furniture)
By Lisa A. Goldstein
Picture your child's room: the bed, dresser and window. If there's a television in there, too, you're now a statistic.
According to a study published in the journal Pediatrics, one-fifth of U.S. children age 0 to 2, and more than one-third of 3- to 6-year-olds, have a television in their bedroom. This isn't a good thing.
Study authors surveyed 1,051 parents about household media and technology ownership, access and use and adherence to the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) recommendations that children under age 2 not view television or other electronic media, and that older children be limited to just two hours of media exposure each day. Accordint to the survey, on average, young children watched one hour and 20 minutes of television each day, including videos and DVDs, and nearly one-third (26 percent) of 3- to 6-year-olds used a computer for approximately 50 minutes.
The study, "Digital Childhood: Electronic Media and Technology Use Among Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers," found that nearly 70 percent of children under age 2 watched television, in spite of the AAP media viewing guidelines. Seventy-five percent of young children (age 0 to 6) watch television each day, often from their own bedrooms.
You can guess what happens if a child has a TV in his or her room. "On average, kids with a TV in the bedroom spend about a half-hour more each day watching," says Vicky Rideout, study co-author and vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and director of the Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health. "Of course, we don't know whether it's because of the TV in the bedroom, or if it goes the other way around – that the kids who spend the most time watching are the ones who end up getting their own TV."
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