Sentences with phrase «child watches a television»

I do not let my children watch television because I feel the marketing is mercilessly geared towards them.»

Before becoming a parent I had high and lofty ideals about not letting my children watch television.

Maybe it's okay to let your child watch television in the middle of the day just this one time.

In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers found that the more children watched television channels that aired ads for children's fast food meals, the more frequently their families visited those fast food restaurants.

Conventions around child watching television took years to evolve — and they continue to do so.

Not exact matches

He'd been watching a baseball game on television the night before and noticed in the background a child walking down an aisle carrying a glass of beer.

To get a thorough education in the emotions that sell, watch television commercials, especially those aimed at children.

On the other side of the glass window, young girls were sitting on benches with matching red dresses, trying to escape their reality by watching children's cartoons on small television sets.

Can the parents who allow their children to watch unlimited hours of unsupervised television, who drop their children off at the mall for an entire day without direction, who allow their children unlimited rein on the Internet really have an interest in them?

do something that both persons desire — e.g., I agree with myself to watch my favorite television program only if I have spent --(amount of time) with the children during the preceding week.»

In praise of deep breaths and slow kisses, of long hold - on - to - me hugs, of children draped on my lap begging for slow back scratches with my fingernails while watching television.

And what can a child think, spending life watching television?

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.

We have open copulation on prime time television, we have erotic fantasies on a cable channel that millions of children watch, and sexual hydraulics is being taught in school in ways intended precisely at breaking down modesty.

Conservative estimates have Americans watching some 20 hours of television a week — more than that in the case of children.

Talk to your children, watch television, go to the movies» everywhere you turn Tocqueville's prophecy about the future is slowly coming to pass.

Maybe this will mean we monitor what our children watch on television.

In fact, by the time they leave high school, the average child would have spent four and a half years of his or her time awake doing nothing but watching television.

The awareness group also warned the current watershed for certain television ads may not be tough enough after it found the average age of children watching post-watershed TV is 11.

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I was 11 or 12 years old; I was watching a lot of Julia Child on television, she was making this soup and it looked like fun.

When Bart and I were first married, I watched Julia Child religiously each weekend on our local public television station.

If unhealthy food advertisements were to be restricted during times when at least 25 % of children are watching television, this would reduce the average unhealthy food advertising impact by 24 % during weekdays and 50 % during weekend days, and if the WHO instead of the current nutrient profiling model were used to restrict unhealthy food advertising to children, the average impact would be reduced by 24 % during weekdays and 29 % during weekend days.

I don't know how much television your children watch, or how much commercialism is allowed in your children's school.

Other contributing factors to NDD are the amount of time children spend playing video games and watching television, as well as significant amounts of time spent riding in the car.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

Let your child see you enjoy reading and learning rather than spending all of your time watching television.

Many children who relate and love to watch television episodes of their favorite characters, also like to use their favorite characters during playtime, too.

Granted my children also use the computer, play video games and watch television but all in moderation... on good days I insist that they play outside.

If you notice that your child likes to suck their thumb while watching television, bring it to their attention so that they are aware of what they are doing and offer them a pillow or toy to hold instead.

I haven't watched that much current Children's Television... I should probably correct that, and then write some letters...

While there were then, and are now, lots of very protective parents, at the other end of the spectrum, there are still some parents who are, sad to say, willing to sacrifice their child's safety and — in the case of concussions, their long term health — at the altar of a winning performance, a touchdown scored, a scholarship won, a pro contract inked, not just fathers, but mothers, too (for proof, one only has to watch the recent reality television show, «Friday Night Tykes.»).

Continue to avoid the choking hazards listed above, and discourage your child from walking, talking, watching television, lying down, or doing anything else while eating that might distract him from his meal.

Over the past several months, there has been a lot of publicity around the AAP's recommendation that children under two shouldn't watch television.

Allowing your child to play with popular toys and watch popular television shows or videos can give her a way to communicate with peers.

Look, I'm never going to judge another parent for handing their phone to their child or letting their kid watch television.

Or anything that comes on television, for that matter, because your child will monopolize the TV watching fucking Minecraft videos on YouTube 24/7.

If a child comes from a home where teasing and sarcasm is the norm or, if they watch a lot of television programs where the characters have barbed tongues, it's likely that the child will model the behavior and take it on as their own.

When our children get to watch Television they are usually sitting quietly and slowing down, but are they really?

Because children who spend much less time watching the tube have been found to be more socially competent, as well as more academically competent, and not to mention more creative and imaginative than their television - educated peers.

The bottom line is that essentially, there are no harmful effects to a child who watches television for a moderate amount of time before the age of three.

Some people have their bigger children tend the small ones, and some have their children go home and watch television and wait for the sound of their key in the lock.

Rather than sitting down and watching television with their children, for example, they simply block certain channels.

I was reminded of their suggestion to parents «to all but ban television watching for children less than 2 years of age.»

We feel that a child shouldn't watch television at all until they're able to talk about what's going on on TV.

A woman I'll call Erica, a 45 - year - old mother of three, has a system for monitoring her children's television and movie watching.

To implement these systems, she told me, she often watches television with her children.

But it is important to remember that it shouldn't mean your child is sitting still and watching television or is in front of a computer screen.

And children who suck their thumbs when they're alone, such as while they're watching television or for a few minutes when they're trying to fall asleep, are less likely to suffer social rejection than children who do it in public.