It’s National TV Turn-Off Week
(April 21^st – 27^th 2008)

The Shasta College Family Studies & Services Program would like to invite you to
focus on your family...instead of the TV!

Remember: Happy families are Healthy families!  

Research shows that children who watch too much TV and have a deficient family life, are more likely to become obese adults, perform worse in school, and have less likelihood of succeeding in life.

 TV Undermines Family Life in many ways:

1) Amount of television that the average American watches per day: over 4 hours

2) Percentage of US households with at least one television: 98

3) Percentage of US households with exactly two TV sets: 35

4) Percentage of US households with three or more TV sets: 41

5) Time per day that TV is on in an average US home: 7 hours, 40 minutes

6) Percent of Americans who always or often watch television while eating dinner: 40

7) Chance that an American falls asleep with the TV on at least three nights a week: 1 in 4

8) Percentage of Americans who say they watch too much TV: 49

9) Percentage of US households with at least one VCR: 85

10) Number of videos rented daily in the US: 6 million

11) Number of public library items checked out daily: 3 million

12) Number of hours of media consumed daily by the average American in 1998: 11.8

 Source: http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/1808/14208.pdf, accessed 4/21/08. 

Why not dedicate two nights this week to turning off your TV and spending time together?
Send a message to your family that they are worth spending some time with!

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