Media Overload

A recent USA Today article reports that kids are less happy as they're more plugged in to media, from cellphones and iPods to TV and video games. To me the numbers in this story make me more skeptical than anything (for example, in this study, a "heavy user" was consuming media content for 16 hours or more in a day - when is there time to sleep?) but it reinforces my resolution to read more to the kids. Since I'm already slacking off, perhaps this story will serve as a good scare tactic. (Maybe I should turn off the computer myself.)