Teletubbies as bad for your child as a violent video game

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By DR ARIC SIGMAN
Last updated at 10:09 PM on 11th September 2010


We must prevent children under three from watching television or risk irreversibly damaging their health.

It may sound shocking but, rest assured, far from being a Luddite, I am enjoying my brand-new iMac and we own a television set. However, I stopped my three youngest children watching TV before the age of three. Let me explain why...

Over the past ten years I have been collating data and my discoveries have troubled me greatly – both as a biologist and as a parent.
Last month, I presented my findings to MEPs in Brussels. My message was unequivocal.

There needs to be a recommended daily allowance for screen time as we have with salt and fat, or we risk harming our children when at their most vulnerable. Indeed, in 2008 the French government outlawed programming aimed at children under three.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1311139/Teletubbiesbad-child-violent-video-games.html

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1. Another n2doc 'toon...

...and this one's hilarious!

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2. Funny how outraged some of the comments are at the dailymail site.

People really don't want to hear this, or anything like it.