TVs in Bedrooms Linked to Weigh Gain

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What do you think?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40120286

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40120286

Clicky link.

I haven't read it yet...will do in a moment. It seems like an obvious thing to me.

If children are allowed unlimited TV then it's more likely their parents watch unlimited TV which means they don't get much excersise.

Surely not just TVs ALL screens anywhere! Also being driven everywhere. I didn't read the link sorry.

I'm 66 and remember that most people have aways eaten shxx , the difference is all the screens, the kids not being allowed to walk to school etc.

Perfect! Another study to make parents feel terrible about themselves....

It seems fairly obvious that children in bedrooms watching television are likely to be less physically active and also likely to achieve less academically and to have worse sleep patterns.

Yes but there have been TVs in bedrooms for years. We refused to have them in any of our bedrooms when our dcs were under 14 or so and that was years ago , people are definitely fatter now.

Perfect! Another study to make parents feel terrible about themselves....

Wouldn't you rather know about research and evidence of harm so that you can make better informed choices though? You might still decide that on balance, in your situation, for your child, you want them to have a TV in their bedroom and that the benefits outweigh the negatives.

And I agree with other posters, it does seem to be stating the obvious. So many other studies are about saying TVs disrupt sleep etc etc.

My kids are 25 22 and 13 so bit of a gap
I didn't let any have tv's in their rooms and only one downstairs.
Older ones grew up in the country, had a healthy diet and lots of crap on top. Had tons of exercise and walked to school.
Younger one also had the same but town not country, as a dd had a time around age 11 when she was overweight, but not obese.

Oh yes, the sleep. I remember this.
Much of my views as a parent of young kids came from magazines as internet was not invented/ in it's infancy.
There were suggestions of interference with sleep then, I'd read articles and discuss them with dh and we'd make our minds up.
Mother and Baby, Mother something else, Parents, Parenting, and there were the odd ones in all the other women's magazines.
"Modern Man" would be involved right from the pregnancy and were beginning to be of some use

In other news, reading books linked to lower levels of illiteracy.

reading books linked to lower levels of illiteracy NO really??!!!!