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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

TV is bad.

Wednesday October 29, 2003
It sucks your kids' (and your) brains out through their eyeballs. We intrinsically know this, but it just makes me giddy when the doctors confirm it. Just this week, the chairman of Developmental and Behavior Pediatrics at the American Acadamy of Pediatrics generally noted that "Watching TV is far inferior to playing with toys, being read to or playing with adults or talking with parents." More specifically, the Academy concluded a study that indicates that young children who live in households where the TV is on most of the time may have more trouble learning how to read than they would otherwise. Read more

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April 21, 2008 at 8:51 pm
(1) isabella says:

no. tv is not bad. its that crap that they show on it. you can watch tv but it has to be limmited. i watch about 3 hours of tv every day. im a strait A student.

January 6, 2009 at 12:52 pm
(2) An intellectual. says:

Straight.

May 31, 2009 at 10:10 pm
(3) Joey says:

“im a strait A student.” Yeah right, didn’t you mean straight? Straight A students dont get their grammar/words incorrectly.

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