Sean Covey Quotes

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

I got an early education from television.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.