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When is watching television good for your baby?
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released a study that indicates early television and video watching can lead to ADHD by time child reaches age 7.
Since 1998 the AAP has recommended no television whatsoever for a child under age 2. They cite television watching as cause for aggressive behavior, obesity, and now Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
What do you think?
France bans broadcast of TV shows for babies
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Is TV dangerous?
Do your young children watch TV? What age is ok to let children watch TV? Is there one?
By Christine Ollivier, Associated Press
PARIS — France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from airing TV shows aimed at children under 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age.
The High Audiovisual Council, in a ruling published Wednesday, said it wanted to "protect children under 3 from the effects of television."
France's minister for culture and communication, Christine Albanel, issued a "cry of alarm" to parents in June about channels dedicated 24 hours a day to baby-targeted programming. In a newspaper interview, she called them "a danger" and urged parents not to use them to help their children get to sleep.
