Comments on: Parents surf and watch TV eight times more than they read to kids http://stephanieoppenheim.com/2009/03/parents-surf-and-watch-tv-eight-times-more-than-they-read-to-kids/ Thoughts on Toys from the Co-Founder of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Danielle Smith http://stephanieoppenheim.com/2009/03/parents-surf-and-watch-tv-eight-times-more-than-they-read-to-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Danielle Smith Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:44:44 +0000 http://toyportfolio.wordpress.com/?p=596#comment-593 Well this certainly describes me! But most of the TV watching and Web surfing is during nap time or after I get the kids to bed, at which point I am brain-dead so it’s not taking time away that from my kids that I otherwise would be reading to them.

Unless I read that wrong and the kids are watching 3 hours of TV a day… that would be ugly.

This also doesn’t mention any independent reading by the kids. For those that can already read, how much are they reading on their own throughout the day? While my younger child naps, the older one has to have some “quiet time” in his room and mostly he reads books and does puzzles. That can make his total reading for those days an hour and a half! Then when we read at bedtime, I can help him with pronunciation or definition of the more difficult words.

My concern is more with those who aren’t reading to their kids, or just barely reading one short book to get them in bed.

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