Kids, like adults, are facing
Kids, like adults, are facingWomen into the labor force has had area) effect on and the mother stays at home, parents spend an Computers have had onlya moderate impact childhood schedules, causing a shasp decline in the average of 22 hours a week engaged with their children's time. The typical &year~ld Spend Amencan children toda} spend less time hours children can spend playing tag outside, for children, compared with 19 hours a week in half-hour each week on the computer, whfl#a rlttng television than the' did in the early example, or in other unplanned activities families where both parents work, and nine hours year~ld spends an hour and 12 minutetJosand less time eating, but more tonem sports Free time left after school eating and sleeping, for single-parent families, the study found. The timediaries arepartofa much I sizybdy more time on schoolwork according the study found, has decreased from 40 percent of After collecting minute-by-minute time diaries that looks at hbw wefl today's chddren are tiri a national study released today. a child's dav in 1981 to 25 percent last year. from the families of 3,600 children, researchers Researchers found, for e,ample, that cv Among the most striking changes is the 'Children are affected by the same time crunch were able to describe in detail how a typical child's hour spent reading each week translates int rease in time spent at school, up by an average that their parents are affected by," said Sandra week plays out, from the average 74 hours half-point increase in achrevementtefl soot norethan90minutesaweek since 1981. That is Hoffeith, a senior research scientist at the inst- sleeping to the nine hours spent consuming...
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