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No TV in child’s bedroom!
Pass your exams first!
New zealand researchers have explored the links in the longer term. They observed the fate of more than 1 000 children born between 1972 and 1973, focusing on their school careers. They made two findings on the consequences of the abuse of television:
• The TV in childhood (between 5 and 11 years) is linked to failure to complete a university;
• The television during adolescence (between 13 and 15 years) increases the risk of leaving school without any qualifications.
In the first case, it seems to deny the positive impact of television for over three years. In the longer term, the effect seems deleterious.
As for problems during adolescence, the explanation seems simple: the result of watching too much television night certainly revisions and homework …
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