Youngsters 'prefer TV to family'
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Family time is under pressure from children watching TV and spending little time with adults, a survey suggests.
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Family days out in Britain are a &quot;rip-off&quot; and the country as a whole is &quot;not family-friendly&quot;, according to a published survey of parents.
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Parents who spend time and money to  teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study  shows young children who take music lessons have better  memories than their nonmusical peers.
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Parents are cutting back their kids' schedules to make more time for family.
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Young children who watch more  than a couple of hours of television a day are more likely to  have attention problems as adolescents, researchers from New  Zealand have found.
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Forget shuttling kids between sports and tutors or enduring a long commute to live near a better school: improving a child's chance of success may be as simple as a regular, leisurely family dinner.
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The more three-year-olds watch television, the more sugary drinks they consume, and the extra calories turn into extra weight, a US study published Wednesday showed.
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Getting children to switch off the  television does not guarantee they will exercise more, U.S.  researchers said on Monday.
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Teenagers who watch a lot of television with sexual content are twice as likely to engage in intercourse than those who watch few such programs, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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Not surprisingly, kids certainly seem to like &#8220;Kid Nation.&#8221; The premiere of the new CBS reality show placed first in two of Nielsen&#8217;s hard-to-measure demographics (children ages 2 to 11 and children ages 6 to 11), the network announced today, citing preliminary data. Some grown-ups were tuning in, too. The show also placed first among adults ages [...].
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Teenagers who watch a lot of television  with sexual content are twice as likely to engage in  intercourse than those who watch few such programs, according  to a study published on Tuesday.
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A "safe, secure" virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC.
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For all the hand-wringing  policymakers do over television, parents say they are gaining  control over what their kids watch, according to a survey  released Tuesday.
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Children who watch major sporting events on television see a lot of violence and unsafe behavior, and it is not just on the field.
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Watching television disrupts  children's' normal response to food -- they will eat more while  they're sitting in front of the tube, whether or not they're  really hungry.
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By INEZ RUSSELL  Last month, after one too many discussions with my child about the need to turn the television off, I called the satellite company and put technology on hold. We've never been a big TV family. In fact, until he was 4, our boy didn't watch television at all.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Watching more than two hours of television daily during childhood increases the likelihood of attention problems in adolescence, according to a new study.