Posted on 09/24/2010 6:40:05 AM PDT by MintyHippo1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVZ2XLm4Cs
From the TV Turnoff Network:
-According to the A.C. Nielsen Co. the average American watches 3 hours and 46 minutes of TV each day (that's more than 52 days of nonstop TV-watching per year).
-By the age of 65 the average American will have spent nearly nine years glued to the tube.
-Parents spend 38.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children is 38.5. -The number of videos rented daily in the United States is six million while the number of public library items checked out daily is three million. -The average American child sees 200,000 violent acts on television by the time he or she reaches the age of 18.
-Eighty percent of Hollywood executives believe there is a link between TV violence and real-life violence.
-An average child sees 30,000 TV commercials in a year.
-By the time s/he reaches the age of 65, the average American will have seen two million TV commercials
-While 59 percent of Americans can name The Three Stooges, only 17 percent can name three Supreme Court Justices.
Good for them. If they have allowed their kids to get that addicted to tv, video games and social media, they DO need to do this.
In our house, other than mom on FR, they are not so addicted. My girls are 10 and 12 and still have active imaginations. They can still pick up Barbies when friends come over.
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