Day: April 13, 2010

Recently the Kaiser Family Foundation published one of the biggest national surveys about media use (TV, movies, computers, video games, music, and books) in children and teens. The study found that youth take in an average of seven hours and 38 minutes of media a day. “The amount of time young people spend with media has grown to where it’s even more than a full-time work week,” says Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “When children are spending this much time doing anything, we need to understand how it’s affecting them–for good and bad.” This...