The dramatic increase in ADHD among children has the medical community looking for reasons why. One of its discoveries is that kids who play video games or watch TV for more than two hours per day have trouble concentrating.
“’I think the concern is that the pacing of the program, whether its video games or TV is overstimulating and contributes to attention problems,’ [Dimitri] Christakis says. Psychologist Craig Anderson, one of the study authors, agrees. ‘The kind of screen time that is probably most harmful… is screen time in which the viewer or the game player has to make a lot of quick decisions,’ he says.” [Source: NPR]
The study, out of the University of Iowa, surveyed teachers and parents about kids’ video game and TV-watching habits. Kids who spent a lot of time in front of a screen were twice as likely to have attention problems.
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Posted By: Stefanie Hamilton