Early TV exposure linked to ADD/ADHD?

http://www.unf.edu/dept/ofe/build/2004/wednesday/rutledge.pd f

(American Academy of Paediatrics article, 2004)

I think early exposure has exposed curus to the truth, ever since then he/she has been trying to stifle every image and shred every document of the truth, to replace it with an alternate truth... I disagree cause lots of people put kids in front of tv at young ages. If this were true we would all have it.My Mil says it the kind of equipment that the tv companies are using that makes the difference. No none truth is really know about disorders and why. They claim it's all genetic but no proof there either. Some families have parent's who are carriers and the kids get it and parent doesn't. Expalin this also. It's all just a guessing game. My dad and I have Adhd. He is more severe than I am. He did not have a tv the entire time he grew up. I always limited tv with my kids. One is like my dad with many of the same adhd symtoms.

I don't buy the tv theory. Maybe in some severe cases when all the child does is sit there all day in front of the tv, but that is a neglect issue as well as a brain development issue.

Just my two cents!

definitely not in my case. we were allowed half an hour of tv a week, when i was growing up and we chose to watch top of the pops for our half hour - that's it. and that would have only been from the ages of maybe seven to eleven ---

prior to that, no TV at all. and from eleven, i was at boarding school so there was two hours on Tue and Thurs (the other evenings was all prep) and free TV watching on the weekends but nobody watched so much because people preferred to do other things or put music on and the only TV was in the common room so if people were dancing etc. or pissing about doing whatever, you couldn't watch the TV!

so no i don't think ADD has the least thing to do with TV. TV watching probably has a lot to do with bad/hyperactive behaviour issues due to crap parenting but those issues are entirely separate. ADD is nothing to do with parenting (good or bad) only bad parenting and neglect and a child left to do nothing but sit in front of a TV can lead to a mimicking of ADD-related behavioural symptoms without there in fact being any ADD there at all.

chjones38701.3292013889I believe it depends a lot on what programs are watched, as well as the personality of the child. I did not watch a lot of tv as a child, but as I got older became addicted to it (and video games) for the "stimulation" provided. I have not had a tv in my home for nearly 9 years now, so as to protect myself from the bad habit I developed watching tv even when I should be doing other things.

I have heard of this before. I have a home day care and one of the parents said they didn't wan't their child watching any type of TV what so every regardless of the amount of time. (As if I'm going to park them infront of the TV anyway) They read that TV exposer as an infant caused ADHD. Of course, HAVING a child with ADHD I tried to explain that TV does not cause ADHD. I brought up the point that most children with ADHD don't SIT in front of anything. Had our daughter done that life would have been less hell than it was before diagnosis. Besides that, my brother has ADHD and I was diagnosed ADD and we didn't have a TV until we were about 10yr old for me and 6yr old for him. By that time the symptoms of ADD/ADHD were already evident.

Well, I have ADHD and they didn't even have TV when I was a young child. I don't watch much TV but I think it is up to the person as to whether they do or don't. Don't see how that TV could have any connection to ADHD. cynthiatweedle38706.5359027778I wonder though if its watches to much isit training the brain that things change all the time like video games do also. I have always been told what you see and listen to effect Brain function at some level.

Yawn.

I love how TV gets blamed for everything from promiscuity to murder rates and now ADHD???

If that was the case then with millions upon millions of latchkey kids at home watching 40 hours of TV a week would be showing MASSIVE ADHD symptoms on a scale that would be epidemic!

No - ADHD is genetic. Just because some show differing symptoms doesn't mean it's not. Just because we haven't found all the markers (they have found several promising ones but it takes time) doesn't mean it's not there.

MS is a genetic disorder. It can stay dormant for life, months at a time or kill the person early on in life. There's no set rule to MS and it varies so much it was very hard to find a why and how when they began to piece it all together. Now they know much and are working on the cure. But previous to key pieces being found it was thought to be in the mind of the people suffering or even several different illnesses. So it takes time.

I tire of these people trying to tie up ADHD as a cultural problem. It's not. Get over it.

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