http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...off-the-tv.ars
Just don't do it, okay?
I've already decided there will be little in the way of TV until they're somewhat safe.
TV kills baby brains
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...off-the-tv.ars
Just don't do it, okay?
I've already decided there will be little in the way of TV until they're somewhat safe.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Well, I guess my kid is brain dead then. Me too for that matter, since TV was around in the '80s.
Scarlett is on her 5th run through of the 90something episodes of Dora the Explorer.
Poor girl never had a chance.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Very true. Babies learn from Play and playing, and especially independent "quiet time play". This has always been true, but something often ignored in our fast paced visual and auditory world, so enamored with digital media. TV screens are everywhere, music is even played in elevators (muzak?) and cars.Even when media plays in the background, it distracts babies from play, an activity that is known to havedeep developmental benefits. And for parents who use media to carve out a few precious, necessary free minutes in busy schedules, Brown recommended letting kids entertain themselves.
“We know you can’t spend 24 hours a day reading to your child and playing with them. That’s okay. What’s also okay is your child playing independently,” she said. “That’s valuable time. They’re problem-solving. They’re using their imagination, thinking creatively and entertaining themselves.”
Those e-Trade commercials portraying babies as investors is both slick and twisted. <So simple even a baby can do it! Juxta-positioned with babies taking iPads or Blackberries with e-Trade apps to their crib for a "nap".>
When my kids were little, they used to say shit like, "The Smiths have a DVD player in their mini-van, and they can watch movies in the car! Why don't we have that?" I'd tell them we could sing-along with radio or CD music, or they could play License Plate games (where every state tag was marked on the map, and they had to predict which states were predominant, and make bets), Roadway (an old highway game where you get points for calling out Roadway trucks), read books or take naps. Or they could look out the damn car window and see REAL mountains, rivers, valleys, towns, bridges, trains, sea ports, boats....instead of watching movies. To help them feel "active" while strapped in their car seats, I'd give them maps, crayons and markers, and boat loads of paper. At the end of 600 mile trips they had great drawings of mountains, hills, valleys, trains and trucks, bridges and cars, could sing lyrics from songs, gained a sense of direction and time, began to understand the states, and learned our national geographical map. All while traveling as passengers in the car, without any damn movie playing in front of them.
Spoiler:
I think it applies to baby brains too, but I could be wrong.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I agree with babies interacting on their own, they are doing problem solving. They have troubles reaching something, or holding something, they adapt and learn, and discover patterns. Definitely true, However, to say a t.v. is just a glowing screen to a child, I disagree with, and I would be inclined to say it's not even all bad.
First off, if you ever put a glowing screen in front of a kid, they don't watch it... they are percieving somethign entertaining (more than just some arbritary screen) whether the content passes to fast for their brains to take anything from it, I may agree with. However, I do think introducing them to new noises, images, colors etc.. is useful in theri development. However, I don't think it's a replacement for traditoinal methods of interaction. In fact, I'd recommend interacting while they watch their sing-along song.
I have no problems with the study, but i'd be surprised if tv watching couldn't be implemented in a useful way.
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