I’ve lost all may hair by reading so many articles to find out if watching TV or teaching tools like LR are good for baby or not.
Some experts believe that watching so many images changing rapidly is harmful for babies because their brain cannot process them and consequently they lose their concentration, which is so obvious when they go to school
on the other hand, when I had a Q in my mind that how baby can process those images rapidly changing in LM/LR? I read an article stating that young babies are right brained so they can understand and learn rapidly changing images and sounds; isn’t this against what experts says about TV?
Actually, I’ve used LR for my baby, since she was 4 months old but those issues mentioned above really worries me.
Does anyone has any experience about this? Has anyone used LR/LM and haven’s seen any concentration problem when her/his child is grown up?
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but my understanding about television and other programming having a poor affect on a child is more related to opportunity costs than the content itself, yes?
I don’t see how working through LR/LM with your child would have the same affect as observed in these studies. People have been doing flash cards for decades and that’s rapid fire changing; although I don’t think they’re have been any studies to show results over a long period of time
My DD can flip through the books, play with blocks, do puzzle by herself for long streach of time …
I think that quality content and short screen time is very essential.
I totally understand “No TV for babies campain” though…
I have a friend who has a daughter 14 month, every time we come, all 4 TVs in her house are on :blink: , both older kids wear glasses,(actually refusing to use glasses…)
I do not think couple minutes a day of LR/ Tweedlewink, etc. will do any harm.
If you have been reading up on it I am sure you have heard all the arguments. They have done studies that have correlated increasing amounts of television viewing with poorer performance in school and behavior problems. The thing that really isn’t known is – is there good television and bad television? If you google “Spongebob Caillou” you can read of one study that claims that kids who watched Spongebob exhibited lower executive function processing immediately after watching compared to kids who watched slower paced Caillou.
I do limit screen time because I do feel like I see my son’s eyes glaze over when he watches TV. :yes: We do do LR and LM though. I feel the same as pokerdad, that it would be the same as doing flashcards and the amount of time he spends in front of the tv for that is very minimal. We also watch some educational videos on YouTube, especially videos with songs because singing is supposed to be great for language development. The thing I don’t do is have the tv babysit him. Basically, I think a little is okay so long as it is quality programming.
So often, you hear the studies citing the commercialism, gender sterotyping, violence, and sexuality as other main reasons not to expose them. High quality educational DVD’s bypass this entirely! The only one is doesn’t is the attention related concerns, but for that small risk, my kids have learned so much it’s been more than worth it. They sit and read books, my son plays trains all morning on a regular basis, DD sits with me and works at the table on painting, crafts, or worksheets. So for our family, we monitor the screen time to an extent, cut out broadcast programming entirely, and learn a lot in the process!
And I just wanted to add, you can certainly do early learning through printed/purchased flash cards, lots of hands on “montessori” inspired activities (which we do to an extent as well) and so on. Screen time just makes delivery sooooo much easier on me as a parent! If I had to do it the old fashioned way, it would never get done.
And I just wanted to add, you can certainly do early learning through printed/purchased flash cards, lots of hands on "montessori" inspired activities (which we do to an extent as well) and so on. Screen time just makes delivery sooooo much easier on me as a parent! If I had to do it the old fashioned way, it would never get done.
and surely go on with teaching my baby by LR/LM :rolleyes: