TOTAL "Screen Time": ( TV, PS-3, DS, computer, cell phone, video, other )
is limited to 90 min a day... That's only 90 minutes! Morning cartoons, after school TV special, Facebook communication and games, cell phone apps, evening DVD / TV movies, Xbox.
I encourage an parental experiment particularly for those parents who are NOT "gamers." Sit with your child and play their favorite shoot-em-up game for 10 minutes. Notice your sweaty hands, pounding heart, and general sense of fatigue.
Research by psychologists at Iowa state show violent video games and television (by interpolation, violent movies as well), contribute to attention problems in children and young adults. The research indicates that screen time in general contributes to attention problems in both children and college age students, and that children who engage in more than two hours of screen time per day (the American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP - recommends no more than two hours of screen time daily for children), were 50 to 100 percent more likely to be above average in attention problems.
Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Roger Sperry identified the spine as the motor that drives the brain. He found "90% of the stimulation and nutrition to the brain is generated by the movement of the spine." That means get the kids moving at every opportunity!
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