18 American children who have home video games play with them about 90 minutes a day. 19 Teenagers spend an average of 2.5 weekday hours on a home computer. 24 Children spend about 28 hours per week watching television. Over the course of a year, this is twice as much time as they spend in school. 25 Children ages 2 to 11 watch an average of six hours of kids' programs each week.
Boys watch about one hour more per week than do girls.
26 Children who have television sets in their bedrooms watch 21 more minutes of television per day than those without. Teenage boys spend nearly twice as much time watching MTV as reading for pleasure. 30 Adolescents say they would have a harder time giving up playing sports for a week than giving up watching television. The three leading causes of death among teenagers are automobile accidents, homicides and suicides. Before the age of 18, the average child will witness over 200,000 acts of violence on television, including 16,000 murders.