Ah, the good old days. I remember coming home from school and wanting to do nothing but lose myself in some gaming goodness, and put off homework until as late as I could. I was always told that I should've got my work done first, and now it turns out, apparently those pesky parents were right.

From the article:

Parents now have science to back them up when they say, ‘‘Turn off the TV. It’s a school night.’’

Middle school students who watch TV or play video games during the week do worse in school, a new study finds, but weekend viewing and gaming doesn’t affect school performance much.

‘‘On weekdays, the more they watched, the worse they did,’’ said study co-author Dr. Iman Sharif of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. ‘‘They could watch a lot on weekends and it didn’t seem to correlate with doing worse in school.’’

Children whose parents allowed them to watch R-rated movies also did worse in class, and for boys, that effect was especially strong. The findings are based on a survey of 4,500 students in 15 New Hampshire and Vermont middle schools. The study appears in the October issue of Pediatrics.

Weekend viewing and gaming slightly hurt school performance, but only when the students spent more than four hours each day at it over the weekend.

Read the full article over at mexiadailynews.com