Wednesday, October 19, 2011

No TV under 2!!

 I guess mom was right when she limited our television watching.  Recent research makes it clear young children learn more efficiently from real interactions — with people and things — than from situations on video screens. “We know some learning can take place from media” for children of school ages, said Georgene Troseth, a psychologist at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, “but it’s . . . lower, and it takes a lot longer.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html?_r=1

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