THE TV-ADHD CONNECTION...Put your child's KM CD INSTEAD and let them imagine they are conducting a symphony....

You'd think a child who can sit glued to a TV screen for hours would, if nothing else, develop a decent attention span. Unfortunately the opposite may be true. When researchers studied 2,500 children, they found that the more TV kids watch between ages 1 and 3, the greater their risk of having attention problems at age 7. Each hour of TV viewed per day, experts noted, increased the risk of symptoms similar to those of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by almost 10%. The study didn't examine parental styles or program content and it didn't rule out the possibility that kids with attention problems may be more likely to be put in front of the TV. The rapid pace and intensity of television exceed what a child would experience in the real world....As a result kids who watch too much TV in early childhood-a critical period of brain development-appear to grow accustomed to a high level of stimulation, which may lead to attention problems... The AAP recommends no more than 2 hours of TV per day for kids over 2 and none for those younger....