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 .jpg)  Our Lil Princess: Amabel Loh Birthday: 21 August 2006 Place of Birth: Thomson Medical Centre, Singapore Delivery Method: Natural Delivery without Epidural Borned in Gestation age: 38weeks 3days Weight at Birth: 3.005kg Length at Birth: 47cm Breastfeed: 14 months  Our 2nd Lil Princess: Aisleyne Loh Birthday: 15 August 2008 Place of Birth: Thomson Medical Centre, Singapore Delivery Method: Natural Delivery without Epidural Borned in Gestation age: 39weeks 2days Weight at Birth: 3.010kg Length at Birth: 48cm Breastfeed: 3 years+  |
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date: Friday, August 24, 2007 time : 8:25 AM For BMW members (esp. Mum-to-be , Leann)  Amabel's cousin, Klemens (3 years old) have been staying in our house for nearly 1 month. I observed that every morning once he wakes up and at night before he sleep or maybe throughout the day which I don’t know, he definitely wants to watch TV programs especially ‘Ultra man’ VCD. Gosh….that is extremely a bad habit., and and and he lay down watching it and had to clasp that ‘Ultra man VCD’ firmly in the arm to sleep , almost fainted. I am just worried that he is already addicted to television and that is really bad for the eyesight. He can middle of the night wakes up crying for the ‘Ultra man’. That’s not funny ok.I remember I always read in articles that AAP guidelines say children older than 2 years old should watch no more than 1 to 2 hours of programs throughout a day. Best is still not to watch any as it is not of any goods / benefit at all. Too much time in front of TV reduces children’s learning abilities, and even the likelihood of their graduating from university. And, according to the guidelines, children under age 2 should have no "screen time" (TV, DVDs or videotapes, computers, or video games except those high quality educational – ‘Baby Words Learning’ DVD) at all and I think Klemens have been start watching television since very very young. During the first 2 years, a critical time for brain development, TV can get in the way of exploring, learning, and spending time interacting and playing with parents and others, which helps young children develop the skills they need to grow cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally. So there is no need of letting them watch any cartoon show/program. Decades of studies have linked childhood hours in front of the TV with aggressive behavior, earlier sexual activity, smoking, obesity and poor school performance. Kids who watched the least TV – especially between the ages of 5 and 11 – had the highest probability of graduating from university by the age of 26, regardless of IQ or socioeconomic status. While those who watched the most TV, had the highest chance of dropping out of school. Two other studies, also published in the July issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine found similar results. Dina Borzekowski at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues found that Northern Californian third-graders - aged about 8 - with a TV in their bedroom watched more TV and performed worse on standardised tests than classmates without a bedroom TV. Frederick Zimmerman and Dimitri Christakis at the University of Washington in Seattle, found that kids who watched the most TV before the age of 3 performed poorest on reading and mathematics tests at ages 6 and 7. But there did seem to be some benefit for TV watching in 3 to 5 year olds, possibly because of the large number of educational programs targeted at this age category, such as Sesame Street, of cause not Ultra man or Power Ranger kind of children program. They suggest that parents should encourage kids to watch quality, educational programming but not long. Morning saw the helper feeding Amabel drink milk in the living room whilst Klemens is watching ‘Ultra man VCD’ there. Faster instructed the helper to bring and feed her in the room and warned her not to let Amabel watch that at all. I am definitely not going to let Amabel has that bad habit. 2 Comments:
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I totally agreed with you that parent should forbid kid from watching those TV program and cartoons. My nephew also having the habit of watching cartoon and other TV program like 'Power Ranger' also and not sure whether you know Power Ranger show, the content can be quite violent which is not good for children also and he is quite intelligent... but is the other type of intelligent (those not good ones). You get what i mean. haha
Oh I din't aware of that. Anyway I don't like kids watching that.