Do they have a TV in their room?
Are they watching some shows that aren't age appropriate and getting overly influenced by TV commercials?
Unfortunately, if you are like most families, the answer to all of those questions is a clear 'yes.'
An easy way to limit the amount of time that your kids watch TV and make sure that they are watching age appropriate quality programming is to simply take the TV out of their room. That way you don't have to worry that they might be watching 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network or shows with adult themes on cable TV.
Keep in mind that having a TV in their room may also cause your kids to have trouble going to sleep, since they may watch TV as they go to sleep, poor grades, and will make it more likely that they spend a lot of time away from the rest of the family.
So even if you don't believe that watching TV will make your children more violent, overweight, or that they will be influenced by commercials that target kids, you now have plenty of other reasons to take your children's TV out of their room and follow the American Academy of Pediatric's recommendation that kids watch no more than 2 hours of quality programming each day.
And keep in mind that playing a lot of video games or spending time on a computer are not good activities to take the place of the time your kids spend in front of the TV. All of those types of sedentary activities are included in the 2 hour limit from the AAP.
