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Parents warned to limit screen time in children under 2
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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New York Times
Parents of infants and toddlers should limit the time their children spend in front of televisions, computers, self-described educational games and even grown-up shows playing in the background, the American Academy of Pediatrics warned on Tuesday. "What we know from recent research on language development is that the more language that comes in — from real people — the more language the child understands and produces later on," said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple.