Emily Watson bans her children from watching TV

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8981172/Actress-Emily-Watson-bans-her-children-from-watching-television.html

Actress Emily Watson bans her children from watching television
Emily Watson, the War Horse actress, says television is not a good thing for young children's development.
Emily Watson prevents her own children from watching television
Emily Watson does not think television is good thing for young children. Photo: GETTY IMAGES; GARETH DAVIES

By Tim Walker

7:28AM GMT 29 Dec 2011

Although a great many folk will have been watching re-runs of her old films over Christmas, Emily Watson, the War Horse star, says she has no intention of letting her own children, Juliet, six, and Dylan, two, become couch potatoes.

The 44-year-old actress, left, points to research that shows too much screen time for children – be it television or a computer – endangers their ability to develop empathy with real people.

“Credit to my own parents for bringing me up without a television,” the 44-year-old actress says, empathetically.

Maybe in the long run television might be even worse than Prozium.

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Hmm ... it doesn't say whether she secretly indulges herself in telly or not. If she doesn't, then my hat if off to her. If she does, then I suspect that the only thing the kids will learn is a lesson in hypocrisy.

And yes, Comrade, television IS in the long run even worse than Prozium.