Do children spend too much time watching TV?

I think that kids will tend to watch TV if there is something that interests them. When I was a kid, the TV was mostly only broadcasting in the evenings and tended to close down between 11 and 12 and all you could get during the day was the test card.. So there was nothing to do but either get out with my friends. If there had been all these channels with so many programs, I would have naturally been tempted to stay in and watch - but I doubt whether my mother would have had me "under her feet".. I ate like a horse, yet was a thin as a jockey's whip. It was all that activity.. That must attest to the benefits of less TV.

My child does not spend too much time in front of the TV. I find it the fault of the parent if their child does. Even when the parent can’t be there actively participating in the activity- they can get their kids away from the TV. My daughter has a certain time limit on TV. It works for us. We spend a lot of time playing games- and being outside- exercise and fun!

Yes children have a tendency to spend a good amount of time watching tv as the choice before them has increased manyfolds with the advent of cable tv. Surely this has had its impact on the time the children spend with their parents. My case is no different but we have restricted our childrens tv watching schedule and have managed to give them more time.

My kids do spend a fair amount of time watching tv or movies and my son loves his video games just like my daughter loves the computer but its not hard at all to get them to do family stuff by any means and they do both love to read...

Nowadays , children spend too much time infront of TV surfing channels . This is quite an unhealthy trend to be curbed . Otherwise most of our kids would turn out to be couch potatoes.

Yes, this is becoming a major problem now a days and its upto us parents i feel to find solutions for this major problem,and i strongly feel that the kids do all this as we allow them to watch TV, we are the ones to make our lives simpler, have planted them in front of the tv so that they do not disturb us, and thats where the kids take off from. No, for me, its always been that i make sure that my kids restrict their tv viewing.Its a rule now in our house which we had started when the kids were younger, but now they well understand that and dont argue or say anything about it, as they know its for their good, that the tv time is restricted to 1 hour, whihc is divided into half an hour slots of 2 parts, so that the kids dont watch too much tv in continuation, barring holidays and sundays, when the kids can see tv for 2 hours in the whole day or maybe 3 hours incase there is a good kids movie coming in or something. With this routine the kids have divided time slots for playing, studies, other activities too, as they know and understand those are important for them as well. But when they are on a holiday, there are no restrictions and they see tv with their friends or cousins, maybe for 2-3 hours too, but thats alright and that too they understand, as once in a while is alright for them. So a lot depends upon us and its never too late to start making your rules, in your house, dont let the kids over rule you, as they would be at a loss that ways as the kids pick up all kind of things from seeing too much of tv, which half the time is unattended or not right for the kids too.