I bet to differ.

I grew up watching lots and lots of TVs. I am now an adult who doesnt watch much.

Games are good in my books. TVs on the other hand...

This is from my personal experience.

First, you cannot believe everything you read on the internet. Again, I repeat, all parents should think about things they read or hear. Consider about the facts and apply them with common sense.

Second, I did not say let them watch everything. I did mention about not letting them watch violent cartoons. Instead of generalizing...TV = bad = ban. That is too extreme. I never allow my kids to watch violent cartoons...those warner bros and simpsons and so on.

Third, the facts about ADHD is not entirely correct. I should know because I have done a lot of research on ADHD. My son is diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's syndrome by professional psychiatrist. He did not watch that much TVs. Plus, experts do not know exactly how ADHD developed. It is also said that ADHD is born with the baby. Not like a disease that you can get "infected" if you did something wrong. Eg, exposing them to TVs. ADHD does not get triggered. It is there all the time. Some people said certain food can trigger hyperactivity. That is ADD. And so far only food are known to trigger hyperactivity. TV? Absurd. There is not such things as ADHD only appearing at certain age. Like I said, you either get it or not. The reason they mention about such age is because ADD/ADHD can only be diagnosed correctly at the age of 5 and above. Sometimes toddlers below 5 may seems like having ADHD but actually it is not.

I want to say this again. Use common sense when bringing up your child. This is what separate us apart from animals.

Adding the time he watches TV per day, I estimate it to be less than 2 hours per day. Cause he prefer to play with his toys. Maybe watch it when there are some nice commercials.

Most of the times when I am watching my shows like axn series or discovery channel, he won't even watch. Unlike my other kid who watches more TV than him and she is NORMAL.

Therefore, my conclusion is austism or adhd has nothing to do with TVs. The tv might have some effects on them but nothing significant.

And TV being bad influence..definitely up to the parents to control what sort of TV programs to allow their normal or special child to watch. Like everything else, there are good and bad in everything. You don't just ignore it's good and ban it totally. Like I said, being a responsible parent is teaching your child about getting good out of the pool of goods and bads.

You were saying how you grow up taking care of child who watches TV and play games. Are those done without supervision? Of course that will be bad. Some parents just don't care. They buy a console and just throw in a pile of games at their child hoping that the kid will leave them alone. So when the kid turned out bad, they blame it on the games. The kid learned something bad from TV..blame it on the TV. Then TV=bad, Games=bad.

One of my child already schooling. The things she learn from school is ten times worst than TVs. Cause there are all these kids who learned all the bad stuffs from TV spreading all the bad influences on your child. This is indirectly from too much unadulterated TV. Can you control that? Can you control who your child can talk to in school?