Thursday, November 15, 2007

Baby DVDs Impair Vocabulary Acquisition

clipped from wellness.com

Many parents, in an effort to give their baby the best head start in life, purchase educational DVDs such as Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children should not watch television until two years of age, countless parents rationalize contradicting this standard pediatric advice, seduced by the promise of a smarter child, or maybe at least by the idea of half an hour of babysitting.
This is an interesting study... could "educational" DVDs really impair development when it has been made to do the exact opposite?

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