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About 90 per cent of the children in the US below two years of age and as many as 40 per cent of infants under three months are regular watchers of television, DVDs and videos, researchers said.About half of the shows watched were in the educational category, with the remainder split evenly among non-educational children’s content, baby DVDs/videos and adult TV. Just 12 per cent of the parents whose children watched less than an hour of television a day said their child “hardly ever does homework,” compared to 21 per cent of those who watched one to three hours a day and 27 per cent of those who watched more than three hours a day. Johnson said he believes TV may be shortening teens’ attention spans. “Over time, it could really dumb down society