Sentences with phrase «year watching television»

On average, each of them spends 1,500 hours a year watching television.

For this reason, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that young children limit TV viewing to no more than 2 hours each day and that children younger than 2 years watch no television.9 Because TV - viewing patterns are shaped during the preschool years, 10 interventions to reduce TV viewing should begin at an early age.

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Television viewing Tube time reached an all - time high in the U.S. this year, with the average American watching four hours and 49 minutes every day.

Watch Graham F. Scott, managing editor of Canadian Business, speak to Breakfast Television about how baby boomers are easing into their retirement years with non-traditional work.

Never mind that, compared to last year, 38 % more Americans turned on their televisions to watch the tournament's final 18 holes.

The average retired 60 - year - old now watches television almost three hours every day.

Aereo stormed onto the media landscape about three years ago with a tiny dime - size antenna and a grand plan not only to change the way people watched television but also to upend the economics of the TV industry.

If you are someone who enjoys watching an entire season of your favorite television shows «all at once,» you can't help but be giddy over Hulu's decision to offer complete seasons of as many as 20 series this year.

Perhaps the most elegant and stylish 81 - year - old in the room, the whole country ached with pride watching Mary Berry win a National Television Award for...

Many will gladly tell you they have no church, no pastor — and then go home to watch 8 hours of television each night — every night — for the next 40 years.

We have been over late - night television for years now (even burning out on The Daily Show and Colbert Report, I'm afraid) but Jimmy Fallon's new gig as host of this programme has us actually watching it again.

For one night of the year (and many more in between), they're able to capture the attention of Americans in cities across the country — 111.3 million in total just last year, making it the most watched television event of 2017.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

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.

From years of watching television, I can recall only one TV series which dealt with corporate sin.

Our highest literary honor last year went to a black woman, and for nearly a decade the most watched model family on television has also been black.

Over the past 10 years, almost everyone who lives and breathes and watches television knows someone — especially a relative — who is gay.

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.

Tutored in the skills of shoplifting by his older sister; taught to roll a tight joint of marijuana by his mother's boyfriend; hyperactive, acne - scarred, a Saturday - night drunk, 11 - year - old Raleigh isn't equipped for adapting to a 50 - year - old foster parent couple who are members of the Jehovah's Witnesses and whose idea of indulgence is to permit him to select one 30 - minute period a night for watching television in their living room.

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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.

I was telling my husband the other day (while watching a famous chef making tortilla de patatas in television) that we actually rarely ever ate Spanish food, except what we had during our holiday in Tenerife a few years ago.

Watch the Super Bowl online this year, even if you have a television handy.

This means that fans watching the encounter at home on their television sets will be able to see the game through the 9 - year league veteran's eyes, hearing what he hears.

Or maybe you were simply a six - year - old watching Doug Flutie complete a Hail Mary live on television one Saturday night in 1984.

This stance has seen me labelled with so many names and accusations of being a nobody that I wonder if, after over 60 years of supporting this wonderful club its time for me to hand in my prized season ticket and go watch the television.

As the Alabama defensive linemen killed time watching television and playing video games on a road trip a few years ago, A'Shawn Robinson got bored and decided he should attempt what so many of his teammates had already failed to do.

It's kind of hilarious, because four years ago I vowed he wouldn't watch television until, like, he graduated college.

He was unable to watch television for many years; the themes were just too much for him to handle until recently.

While BabyDiva, under the guidance of Mama Luxe, doesn't watch any television, Mama - to - Be isn't so sure she'll be able to stick to the «no TV before 2 years» rule despite her best intentions.

In addition, another study found that 4 - year - olds who watch a lot of television are more likely to become bullies later in life.

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

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.

I've walked the fields of mega-tournaments, watched countless instructional DVDs and books, appeared on television to promote new football helmets, and, over the years, have turned down the chance to promote hundreds, if not thousands, of products, many making claims that could not be backed up by peer - reviewed studies, some whose advertisements were later found to be misleading by the Federal Trade Commission.

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In other words, your two - year - old can pick which game she wants to play, or which show she'd like to watch, but she shouldn't be deciding how long she gets to watch television or whether or not she has to take a bath afterwards.

Currently, 90 % of parents report that their children younger than 2 years watch some form of electronic media.2 By 3 years, almost one - third of children have a television in their bedroom.3 Parents report that they view television as a peacekeeper and a safe activity for their children while they are preparing dinner, getting ready for work, or doing household chores.3 Many parents report feeling better knowing that the programming their children watch has been described as educational.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

My 3 - year - old typically throws tantrums in the morning, mainly about wanting to watch television or because her breakfast isn't what she wanted.

Parents hope the programmes, which typically consist of brief dialogue and picture sequences, will boost the learning ability of children as young as eight months old, even though the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that youngsters not watch television until two years of age.

Last year, Fox News, the top news choice for Trump voters, became the most - watched cable news network on US television, surpassing the sports network ESPN for the first time.

He says he watched the Garner case unfold on television with his eleven year old son.

Parents of the 991 girls and 1,006 boys from the Study reported the number of hours their children spent watching television at two and half years.

«Children who watched a lot of television growing up were more likely to prefer solitude, experience peer victimization, and adopt aggressive and antisocial behaviour toward their peers at the end of the first year of middle school.

On July 20, 1969, peeking through her fingers at the images on her family's black - and - white television set, 8 - year - old Bowman, her sister and mother watched astronaut Neil Armstrong land on the moon.

Leisure - time physical activity (including television watching) was assessed in 1991, 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2009 with a previously validated questionnaire (9) on time per week spent on various activities over the previous year.

A few years after the incident with my sister, my mother married a great guy, a hard working construction worker who chain smoked and watched far too much television.

When I was about 15 years old I watched a television show that warned against the dangers of anorexia, bulimia and the likes.

It was one year ago today, when like most others, I was glued to the television watching the results of the Clinton versus Trump election.

You can watch them get married in front of 52 million television viewers at the 2013 Rose Parade on New Year's Day.