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What effect does habitual viewing have on children? Wilkins cites major studies that have reported a relationship between increased watching and decreased learning, between violence on television and aggressive behavior. Wilkins approvingly quotes Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, who once said: "The danger of TV lies not so much in the...
What are the signs of addiction? According to Wilkins, there are some key clues. Do the children come straight home from school and turn on the TV? Do they watch more than ten hours a week? Is their concentration span divided into seven-minute segments, the usual time between commercials...
Earlier this year, Wilkins conducted a week-long cold-turkey cure with elementary-school pupils in Ridgewood, NJ. Her accounts of the week of abstinence often sound like the minimelodramas at a fat farm. Some families balked; some began and gave up; several starving mothers furtively watched General Hospital; one...
At times, Wilkins sounds like a Pollyannaish sitcom mom, regaling readers with the pleasures of life without TV. It might just be that many TV-liberated adults would fail to make profitable use of their new free hours and indeed find life unendurably dull without their daily electronic fix. Released...
Although Breaking the TV Habit explores no new ground in its indictment of TV, it does provide a fresh, perhaps even workable scheme for curing TV addiction. Wilkins presents a distressing vision of Television Land as an endless series of television sets, holding an infinite series of smaller sets, endlessly...