Good Old Fashion Parents are still better than DVD’s
TUESDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) — DVDs and videos that claim to help boost infants’ ability to learn new
words may actually hinder their language development, a new study says.
For every hour a day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants between 8 and 16 months old understood an average of six to eight fewer words than infants who didn’t watch them. The baby DVDs/videos had no positive or negative effect on the vocabulary of toddlers ages 17 to 24 months.
“There are only a fixed number of hours that young babies are awake and alert. If the ‘alert time’ is spent in front of DVDs and TV instead of with people speaking in ‘parentese’ — that melodic speech we use with little ones — the babies are not getting the same linguistic experience,” Meltzoff said.
You can read the whole article here. Several thoughts:
- be slow to trust new scientific studies.
- nothing can replace relationships.
- God knew what He was doing by creating parents and families rather then DVD’s to train children.
- This applies to adult growth and development as well, one cannot grow as much or properly simply through DVD’s, books, or Internet. Relationships are a key part of God’s plan for us to grow spiritually.