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How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? According to a national survey of more than 30,000 U.S. 6- to 11-year-olds, children are particularly likely to have behavior problems if they are frequent TV viewers and their parents are not actively involved in their lives (Mbwana & Moore, 2008). Children who watched more than 3 hours of TV a day, who did not communicate very well with their parents, and whose parents knew few or none of their friends had the highest levels of externalizing problems (acting out) and internalizing problems (depression and anxiety). Parents can help diminish the potentially negative impact of screen media on their children in a number of ways (Hogan, 2012). One is to watch programs with the children. This message seems to be getting across to parents: The proportion of time children reported watching screen media with their parents increased from 5 percent in 1999 to 32 percent in 2004 (Rideout et al., 2005). "Co-viewing" programs is especially helpful for general audience fare (Troseth et al., 2016). Watching with Mom or Dad can help children cope with fear aroused when the programs are scary. In fact, children say that their most common strategy when they are afraid of what they are watching is to "sit by Mom or Dad" (Huston & Wright, 1998). Children often watch with their siblings as well (Roberts et al., 1999), and preschoolers who watched a scary show with an older sibling were less upset than preschoolers who watched the show. Need Assignment Help?