TV and mobile phones interfere with children read

Reading skills are worse than those of children who have a mobile phone, or have TVs in their rooms. That is the conclusion reached by experts from the British National Foundation for Educational Research.

They conducted surveillance of 4 000 pupils in England and found that if children in the rooms are TVs and DVD-players, and the children themselves actively use mobile phones, they are much worse cope with the reading test than their peers who do not have these gadgets. Meanwhile, two-thirds of 10-year olds in the UK have their own TVs, it has a similar number of DVD-players and mobile phones.

But the possession of musical instruments, on the other hand, improves reading skills   among children, the study found. In addition, the researchers found that the longer teenagers sitting on various social sites, the worse they are such sciences as physics, chemistry and mathematics. Despite the fact that English children occupy an honorable 11th place in the world ranking, which measures reading skills among students, the number of those who read poorly, remains high. In England twice desyatiletok "stuck at the most basic level of reading" than the United States.

Computers, televisions and mobile phones really are destructive to children. Today, 20% desyatiletok spend in front of screens more than three hours a day. In addition to problems with reading skills   This leads to the development of excess weight, as well as the entire weight of chronic diseases that are associated with a sedentary lifestyle. The more that sitting in front of computer or TV schoolchildren usually combined with the absorption of a large amount of extremely harmful "junk" foods, like chips or soda.

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