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No matter what a family's background or income level, there is something all parents can do to help in their children's education, says President Obama: Turn off the TV during the week.
In an article on the Chicago Tribune Online, Obama talks about his own family's weeknight routine.
"The first thing they do after school is homework. If they haven't finished by dinnertime, around 6:30 p.m., they pick up where they left off after the meal. And after that, they can read until they hit the sack. Malia's bedtime is 9 p.m.; Sasha's lights go out a half hour earlier, he said."
The president's call to parents to scale down TV use comes just weeks after a study from The Kaiser Foundation found that daily media use among teens and kids is risen dramatically in the last five years.
According to the study, "only about three in ten young people say they have rules about how much time they can spend watching TV (28%) or playing video games (30%), and 36% say the same about using the computer".
The amount of time spend using media in one day increased by an hour and seventeen minutes over the past five years from six hours and 21 minutes in 2004 to seven hours and 38 minutes today.
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