Hetero Headline of the Day
posted by on May 8 at 12:28 PM
I’m filing this under “Hetero” because most babies’ parents are straight:
40 percent of babies watch TV, UW study findsBabies are glued to television sets these days, with 40 percent of 3-month- olds and 90 percent of 2-year-olds regularly watching TV, according to a University of Washington study released Monday.
These tiny viewers are further proof that baby TV is a booming business in 2007. Today, infants have their own 24-hour network, Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein DVDs, and a growing list of other programs made just for them. Many also have sets in their bedrooms.
Most babies' parents are dumb.
I blame TV for all my childhood problems.
How about 33% of children under 6 have TVs in their bedrooms? That's what scares me.
Movies kept me sane. Wait...
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I suspect most people have a TV in their house because they feel TV is not a bad thing.
how can 3 month olds even watch tv?
My 3 year old does NOT have a TV in her room and does NOT watch TV very much. She's too busy web crawling on the computer.
I liked watching Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow and Square One on PBS when I was a kid. My mom didn't let me figure out how to work the TV, and I didn't really try, because those were good shows. Now even PBS has crappy cartoons in place of cool shows for really little kids. I'm probably not the only person who wants my kids to grow up in the same time I grew up instead of their own :P
According to my mother, I watched a hell of a lot of Sesame Street when I was a kid. I was also reading by four. She maintains that they're connected.
Good lord, just wait until they start analyzing and direct marketing to that demographic. As it is, I freak out when I"m watching Adult Swim and a commerical comes on for Depends Undergarments.
I went to dinner at Bamboo Garden on Queen Anne last night and at a table across the way there was a family who had a baby in a high chair with a dvd player set in front of her(?) the entire length of their dinner. When the video was over they actually went and selected the Bonus Features to continue the distraction from... the family? Maybe I'm idealistic, but shouldn't a child learn that dinner with the family is an interactive time? It was really distracting.
Dan, did you have a TV around during your kid's formative years, or even during your own?
I didn't get a tv in my room till I was like 6 or 7.
So how long will it be before some maverick researcher discovers the heretofore undreamt-of correlation between babies watching TV and the skyrocketing incidence of autism and A.D.D.?
What in god's name makes people willing to have trash poured into their kids' heads? And please spare me the "I watched Sesame Street and learned to read at 4" until you can present the other, alternate-universe you who had the exact same upbringing except for no Sesame Street, and didn't learn to read until you were 6. If real live parents share wonderful books with their kids, just for the sheer fun of it, the kid will grow up liking to read.
I don't have a tv set and I haven't for decades. My kid's at an ivy league college and I keep my no-tv lifestyle closeted around co-workers and casual acquaintances, because it's just so damn weird nowadays and I don't want to come across as an annoying crank. But, Jesus ... Babies watching tv? Toxic, toxic, toxic!
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Weird. I didn't get a TV in my room until I was ... uh ... 20. Just around the time I stopped watching TV.
>So how long will it be before some maverick researcher discovers the heretofore undreamt-of correlation between babies watching TV and the skyrocketing incidence of autism and A.D.D.?
They already did - for A.D.D. at any rate. Kids who watch a lot of T.V. have markedly shorter attentions spans and higher levels of aggressive behavior. This has been proven by more than one study. Kids who watch a lot of T.V. are also more likely to be obese.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends NO screen time (this includes computers, by the way) for children under 3 and limited screen time after that. In very young children, it actually affects the way the brain develops, and not in a good way. That includes Sesame Street, Baby Einstein and "educational" computer games.
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