I just don't think families talk anymore. Therefore, kids don't know how to communicate. There's no scaffold of conversation in the home. I think bedtime routines are important. That's when a lot of kids talk about what they're thinking about.
Parents lose that time if the children fall asleep while lying in front of a TV set.
Children watch parents, Klingshire said, to see what the parents value. If they see the parents paying a lot of attention to television, the children will, too. Indeed, parents' TV watching can be as significant to the home environment as the children's, Erwin has observed.