Baby Tard
Researchers have determined that infants who view "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby"-type videos are less verbally adept than their peers whose parents substituted TV time for actually talking with them.I believe watching these videos, with their vivid colors, morphing shapes, and absence of words are the equivalent of cats watching an aquarium. Can my cat talk? No she cannot.
More than 1,000 parents took part in an assessment of their children's skills as judged by the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI).
Among infants (age 8 to 16 months), each hour per day of viewing baby DVDs/videos was associated with a 16.99-point decrement in CDI score...
...some children could not identify the word "cookie", indicating that parents hoarded all the sweets while they parked their children in front of the TV.
This is why we only let our daughter watch Baby Geddy videos. I asked Marisol what she thought of this.
"One likes to believe in the freedom of music," she said. "But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah."
"That doesn't make any goddamn sense," I said, enunciating each word clearly so she understood. "You are a horrible disappointment."
See also: Associations between Media Viewing and Language Development in Children Under Age 2 Years (journal of pediatrics)
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by Marty Barrett at Thursday, August 09, 2007
1 Comments:
Unfortunately, the only child I know who watched those videos from a very young age, is also one of the most well-spoken children I know. The wee Miss Daywalt gives my beloved soon-to-be former ACI and nephew Finn a run for their money in the Child I'd Most Like to Bump Into at a Cocktail Party.
I think videos or not, parents who talk, read to, and engage their kids have children who are smarter. Videos in addition to, not instead of.
My word verification is Doodie.
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