TV causes children’s attention disorders

PARENTS of toddlers should turn off their TVs to reduce the risk of their children developing attention span problems later on, an expert warned yesterday.

Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Dr Dimitri Christakis, has found a link between children younger than three years of age who watch TV and attention problems.

“We found that the more TV children watched under the age of three the more likely they were to have attention problems when they were seven years old,” he said.