Vancouver Sun; Monday October
13, 2003
Children's
Health at Risk
Four-year-old Tayme gives her mom Kym Stewart a hand preparing
dinner for the family instead of watching television. Stewart
and a team of researchers recently developed a media education
curriculum and introduced it to four North Vancouver schools.Ward
Perrin, Vancouver SunAfter years of studying how television
can negatively affect children, Simon Fraser University researcher
Kym Stewart decided not to have a television in her own home
once she had a child.
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