TV Watching is Bad for Babies' Brains

AUTHOR: Nancy Shute
PUBLICATION NAME: US News & World Report
DATE OF PUBLICATION: December 7, 2010
SUMMARY: A study done in New York which followed 259 low-income (and mostly primary Spanish-speaking) families showed that babies around the age of 14 months who watched television for an hour daily had developmental scores lower that those of babies whose television-watching activities were limited. These results contradict what many parents allow their children to do: watch excessive television. Previous studies that focused on higher-income families showed similar results, refuting that argument that socioeconomic status matters in this study. This research also shows that television stunts developmental growth when babies are exposed at an age of 2 years or less (basically meaning all those Baby Einstein videos may be useless). A link between children who do not read (or whose parents do not read to them) and children who watch non-educational television has been established. Many should be aware of this study, because many are addicted to television and are passing it on to their children, and this research shows television is not good for developing children and babies!
LINKS TO STUDY: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17261478


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SUBMITTED BY: Bettina Pancho