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U.S. Kids Exposed to 4 Hours of Background TV Daily: Study

Excessive exposure hinders ability to learn, doctors warn

October 1, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Bickham, who is also an instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, agreed that the TV should be off when no one is watching.

"That's not telling people not to watch at all," he said. "Just that we should be intentional viewers when we do."

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