One of my parent friends and blogger Suysel emailed this to me. (Her blog has super finds by the way)…she sent this link with the addendum: "I’m not sure I believe this"….what do you all think? I am inclined to believe this- unlike the October study that stated TV watching is connected to autism. Thoughts?

Here is the excerpt from Time.com: The claim always seemed too good to be true: park your infant in front
of a video and, in no time, he or she will be talking and getting
smarter than the neighbor’s kid. In the latest study on the effects of
popular videos such as the "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" series,
researchers find that these products may be doing more harm than good.
And they may actually delay language development in toddlers…… Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the
University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour
per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to
eight fewer new
vocabulary words than babies who never watched the
videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8
to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to
form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says
Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills
than infants who had not watched these videos."…….Three studies have shown that watching television, even if it includes educational programming such as Sesame Street,
delays language development. "Babies require face-to-face interaction
to learn," says Dr. Vic Strasburger, professor of pediatrics at the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a spokesperson for the
American Academy of Pediatrics. "They don’t get that interaction from
watching TV or videos. In fact, the watching probably interferes with
the crucial wiring being laid down in their brains during early
development."…..His group has found that the more television children watch, the
shorter their attention spans later in life. "Their minds come to
expect a high level of stimulation, and view that as normal," says
Christakis, "and by comparison, reality is boring."

Hmmm….if reality is so boring, why do we have all those reality show? Oh, right, they aren’t real.

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