The American Academy of Pediatrics told us this week that SpongeBob Squarepants may be contributing to Attention Deficit Disorder in kids. They didn’t say it in those exact words, but that’s what their recent study with four year-olds seems to suggest. Apparently, watching a nine minute clip of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon negatively affects their attention spans.
This doesn’t surprise me, because watching Sponge Bob affects my attention span.
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