http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/cal-paterson/ Cal is a Consulting, Supervising and Clinical Psychologist in Sydney. He has presented papers and workshops in Australia and overseas on topics including Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy techniques, client factors affecting treatment outcome, working with parents and carers of people with disabilities, personality disorders, working with couples, and psychotherapy integration. He began working as a psychologist in Parramatta in 1998 and has worked with individuals, families and organisations across NSW and occasionally interstate ever since. He is married with two young children, and lived in the inner west of Sydney. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-you-should-plonk-your-kids-in-front-of-the-telly/ Among the down-sides of the widely-available LCD or Plasma TV is the redundancy of the term ‘boob-tube’. Whoever originally coined this expression, with its wonderful breastfeeding double-entendre, must surely have had either Freud or Andy Warhol in mind. Few parents are immune to the pang of guilt that can be felt when seeing their kids ‘glued to the box’, jaws slack, eyes unblinking, shoulders slumped. All the facial muscles set to passive mode. All the action in the room comes from the flickering lights and jingle-jangle noises in front of the kids. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Cal Paterson) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-you-should-plonk-your-kids-in-front-of-the-telly/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-you-should-plonk-your-kids-in-front-of-the-telly/#item2528 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:50:19 +0000 Cal Paterson | Author bios | The Punch