A generation of “multitasking” children are living their daily lives – including eating and falling asleep – to the accompaniment of television, according to a survey of youngsters’ media habits.
The flickering of the screen accompanies most of them before they go to school, when they return home, as they consume their evening meal and then – for 63%, far more than read a book each day – in bed at night. The study of five- to 16-year-olds shows that four out of five children now have a TV set in their bedroom.
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