The Virginian-Pilot 
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 1996              TAG: 9610080061
SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY NANCY RYAN AND BONNIE MILLER RUBIN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
                                            LENGTH:   32 lines

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S GUIDELINES HELP PARENTS TUNE IN TO THEIR CHILDREN'S TV-WATCHING HABITS.

FOR MANY parents, it sits like a beast in the living room, asking for a fight or waiting to devour the minds of impressionable members of the household.

It's the TV, of course; and as almost all parents know from traumatic experience, getting kids away from it isn't as simple as quietly exercising parental responsibility. The complete text of this wire story is not available in the database. For copy of complete text, see microfilm. ILLUSTRATION: Color illustration by Sam Hudley

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TV TIPS FOR PARENTS

Chicago Tribune

Source: American Medical Association

[For complete copy, see microfilm]

KEYWORDS: TELEVISION CHILDREN AMA AMERICAN MEDICAL

ASSOCIATION GUIDELINES TV < by CNB