Television Viewing and Televisions in Bedrooms: Perceptions
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Television Viewing and Televisions in Bedrooms: Perceptions of Racial/Ethnic Minority Parents of Young Children
Jess Haines • Ashley O'Brien • Julia McDonald • Roberta E. Goldman • Marie Evans-Schmidt • Sarah Price • Stacy King • Bettylou Sherry • Elsie M. Taveras
Published online: 12 July 2012 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Abstract Understanding parents' perceptions of their young children's viewing behaviors and environments is critical to the development of effective television reduction interventions. To explore parents' attitudes, perceptions, and experiences regarding their children's television viewing and the use of televisions in their children's bedrooms, we conducted focus groups with 74 racial/ethnic minority parents of children aged birth to 5 years. We analyzed transcripts of the focus group discussions using immersion-crystallization. Over 50 % of parents reported
J. Haines (&)
Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1,
A. O'Brien • J. McDonald • S. Price • E. M. Taveras Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
R. E. Goldman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
R. E. Goldman
Department of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
M. Evans-Schmidt
Center for Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
S. King
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA
B. Sherry
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
that their children watch more than 2 h of television per day and 64 % reported that their children have a television in their bedrooms. In general, parents were unconcerned about the amount of television their children watched. However, parents did express concern about the content of their children's viewing. Discussion of potential harmful effects of television viewing focused mainly on the impact television viewing may have on children's behavior and academic outcomes and only rarely on a concern about weight. Most parents were unaware of adverse consequences associated with children having a television in their bedroom and many reported that having a television in their child's bedroom helped keep their child occupied. To effectively engage parents of young children, television reduction interventions should include messages that address parents' key concerns regarding their children's viewing and should provide parents with alternative activities to keep children occupied.
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Parents have control over their young children. Parents should regulate what their children do. At the tender ages, children are unlikely to differentiate what is good or bad for them. Children love watching television. It should be the duty of parents to note how this is likely to impact on their children lives and impose restriction where necessary or give directions on the best and suitable television shows for their children. It would be difficult for parent per se to prevent their children from watching television at all.Television reduction interventions are meant to reduce the number off hours young children spend on television and most importantly the content they watch. Parents have even gone to greater heights and availed televisions in their children's bedrooms. This in absolute terms means that some parents are less concerned on the number of hours their children watch television. Different people just like parents, look and see things from in different perceptions. There are those parents who would feel that their children should spend no time watching television while other see these as a vital thing for their children: important and unavoidable. To achieve the objectives of television reduction interventions, it is vital, therefore, to understand the perceptions of parents towards this CITATION Hai12 \l 1033 (Haines, Ashley , Julia , Goldm, & Et al, 2012).Some parents feel that having television in a child's bedroom engages him or her for the better part of idle time. Time which according to these parents, would have been spent in less useful activities. This statement may be taken to mean that such parents lack alternative activities for their children. Most parents are ignorant of any issues that children may develop from watching television. Some parents like their children watching TV as shown by their responses “My daughter….is just now getting into TV and she likes watches 15 min at a time…but I want her to watch more.&aci...