{"id":286,"date":"2008-09-14T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2008\/09\/14\/limiting-and-watching-what-children-watch\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T18:28:00","slug":"limiting-and-watching-what-children-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2008\/limiting-and-watching-what-children-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting, and Watching, What Children Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa Guernsey, writer for the New York Times has a new article up about children’s media usage. She reminds us of both positive and negative attributes of children’s media use, pointing out that “positive choices take forethought.” She also quotes a pediatrician and spokerperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Donald L. Shifrin as saying: \u201cRemember that TV has a lot of public health implications as we get older.\u201d His concerns include weight gain, smoking, aggression and risky sexual behaviors that may follow from children seeing years of the media glorifying junk food, cigarettes, violence or teenage sex. <\/p>\n

Lisa Guernsey is the author of \u201cInto the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age 5.\u201d For the complete article, go to here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Guernsey, writer for the New York Times has a new article up about children’s media usage. She reminds us of both positive and negative attributes of children’s media use, pointing out that “positive choices take forethought.” She also quotes a pediatrician and spokerperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Donald L. Shifrin as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}