Kids should spend more time playing

Child's play may be going the way of cheap gasoline. Children 6 and under spend about two hours a day with screen media, about three times as much as they spend reading or being read to, according to the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Heavy television watchers spend less time playing than other children. Other research gathered by the organization says that children ages 9 to 12 spend only one minute a day in creative play.