Twenty-three 7 and 8-year-old school children from a single year group in a primary school in the Manchester area took part.
Over a five-week period, the children were observed in the classroom and along with their families in their homes. During weeks 3 and 4, half the participants had their TV sets, PCs and portable game consoles removed or disabled. The remaining families carried on as normal.
Even after just two weeks, families found they began to interact more, even to ‘rediscover’ their pleasure in each other’s company.
Children tired from an active evening were more liable to go to bed early and wake up refreshed and alert the next day.
One parent told the Panorama team after the two-week experiment: “Thinking of how we were as a family around the TV…the TV controlling us…and using the TV as a pacifier for the kids…just seems totally crazy now.”
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