Health
2 hours of TV a day in late childhood linked to lower test scores later – Medical Xpress
Children aged eight and nine who watched more than two hours of TV a day or spent more than one hour a day on a computer had lower scores than their peers on reading and numeracy at ages 10 and 11, our study has found.
Children aged eight and nine who watched more than two hours of TV a day or spent more than one hour a day on a computer had lower scores than their peers on reading and numeracy at ages 10 and 11, our study has found.
Our results, published in PLOS ONE, were collected as part of the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (CATS) based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
We found children who watched TV two hours per day at eight and nine years of age performed lower in reading tw…
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