{"id":483072,"date":"2010-03-28T22:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/baby-dvds-dont-lead-little-einsteins-41485\/"},"modified":"2010-03-28T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T02:43:15","slug":"baby-dvds-dont-lead-to-little-einsteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/483072","title":{"rendered":"Baby DVDs don&#8217;t lead to little Einsteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Baby DVDs don&#8217;t lead to little Einsteins<\/p>\n<p><\/b>If you want to raise a boob, then just park that diaper- clad butt in front of the tube. And no amount of educational videos can do anything to change the fact that TV is not going to raise a sharp, well-adjusted kid for you.<\/p>\n<p>One new study found that a popular DVD series that&#8217;s supposed to help kids learn to talk is a complete sham.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers monitored 96 infants and babies under 2 years old. Some were randomly assigned to watch Baby Wordsworth DVDs for six weeks, while others formed a control group.<\/p>\n<p>The TV-watching babies didn&#8217;t learn more words, didn&#8217;t learn faster and didn&#8217;t do better than the tots in the control group, according to the study in the Archives of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent Medicine. Other studies have found that babies who watch &quot;educational&quot; videos actually learn fewer words and score lower on tests, too.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, it beats hiring a babysitter, right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the tots, either. Hours in front a TV or computer can take its toll on older kids as well. Another new study in that same journal showed that TV-watching teens have a harder time forming emotional bonds with their parents. That&#8217;s no real shocker. After all, that&#8217;s already enough of a challenge at that age. Throw in time spent on computer, and you can kiss those emotional bonds goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, for each daily hour spent watching TV, the risk of low attachment increases by 4 percent, and for each daily hour on the computer, it ups the odds by another 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Kids who did homework and enjoyed reading, on the other hand, were more likely to have higher levels of attachment to their parents, according to New Zealand researchers.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a kid, unplug the tube and keep it that way throughout childhood &#8212; and whatever you do, don&#8217;t ever put a television in a child&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n<p>Raising Cain over raising kids,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.douglassreport.com\/\/t\/AQ\/AAE7pw\/AAFBwg\/C+U\/AQ\/Ad481Q\/qad8\" >William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby DVDs don&#8217;t lead to little Einsteins If you want to raise a boob, then just park that diaper- clad butt in front of the tube. And no amount of educational videos can do anything to change the fact that TV is not going to raise a sharp, well-adjusted kid for you. One new study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}