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TV vs. Sunday School
Just how much television do we "consume"? Share these facts with your students and lead a discussion on what the numbers mean. Download the accompanying graphs to help illustrate the figures to your students.
- The average American watches over four hours of television per day.
- 56% of kids age 8 to 16 have a television in their bedrooms.
- Parents spend an average of 38.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children.
- Children ages 2 to 17 spend about 20 hours per week watching television.
- The average child spends 900 hours per year in school and 1,023 hours per year watching television.
- The average child spends 50 hours in Sunday School and 1,023 hours per year watching television.
- By age 18, the average child has seen 200,000 acts of violence on television.
- By age 18, the average child has read 100 stories of love and mercy in the Bible.
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the graph on weekly television viewing (10 K PDF file)
Download the graph on teleivion
viewing by age (10 K
PDF file)
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the graph on hours of television viewing each year (10 K PFD file)
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