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Posted on 05/08/2007 7:47:54 AM PDT by Sopater
On a completely unrelated and off-topic note:
Most of these kids are watching what parents consider to be quote, unquote 'educational TV.
Why isn't it quote, body of text, unquote? Why do we always say quote,unquote, and then the body of text?
/crazy rant off.
I watched a little Art Linkletter on rainy days when Mom was ironing. ;)
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A lot of stories are written by gals who look like quote unquote this! |
Well, it may be anecdotal, but my kid watched LOTS of music videos when he was young. We found that when he was 9 months old, he'd sit in a chair and watch a music video (kids music video...Wee Sing,Sing-A-Longs, etc.) So needless to say, we took advantage of that fact. He grew up loving music, is a wonderful pianist, did very well in math, and is about to earn his college bachelor's degree at the age of 19. We didn't do TV per se...especially TV with commercials, but he did watch a lot of music videos and I believe it influenced him for the better. Was he drawn to the music videos because that was his aptitude, or was his aptitude developed because of the music videos? I don't have the answer to that, but I don't think TV/video viewing is all bad...I think some programs can be good.
I think videos like Baby Einstein are closer to child abuse than child development. Babies learn by touching, feeling, interacting and exploring, not by being little couch potatoes. Shame on the companies that foist this crap on parents and shame on the parents that buy into this line of BS. They must be either so vain as to imagine that their little precious ones are so precocious that they would actually understand the videos at 6 months old or so lazy that they use technology and money to try and offset bad parenting. Just my opinion, take it for what it’s worth.
My oldest son used to watch country music videos and learned to sing all the songs before he was two. Now that he’s 13, he refuses to sing, and want to be a heavy-metal drummer.
Come to think of it ... I believe there was one or two in the 70's .... OH yeah ... and the 80's ... um ... the 90's and now ...
... and the states these taxpayer 'research' millions go to are all over the map.
LOL, well mine never got into drums...he did take up guitars and he has a “menagerie” of guitars in his room, but he plays keyboard in a band, so that’s mostly what he practices. And his piano teacher, thank goodness, still insists on him learning classical, so it’s very pleasant to hear him practice.
In general, he'll get less TV time on nice weather days because we're playing outside, and more on bad weather days as there's only so long the toys hold interest. ;)
Well, for what its worth, my mother used to park me in front of “Donahue” every day for an hour while she watched it and ate lunch.
I think I turned out okay. I’ve only been committed to the mental ward twice, and the second time was a complete misunderstanding. The nightmares are almost entirely gone, too... although old men with white hair and glasses still give me the heebie-jeebies.
:)
This is slightly off topic, but what happened to cartoons? Cartoons used to be funny. Now children can’t watch a cartoon without learning how to spell the word homosexual, or without learning how to speak Spanish. What happened to Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry? I loved those shows when I was a kid.
Turn off the damned thing! It is a mind-control tool. It exists to convince us to buy things that we don’t need and to believe things that the producers want us to believe.
It missed the opportunity to do something useful in society a long time ago.
Wow...that’s a great idea, I didn’t know such a thing existed.
We homeschooled and used Abeka videos for a couple years. I used to chuckle to myself when I’d hear my kid talking back to the other kids in the class, or to the teacher.
Are the classes on BJU’s network set up the same way, where the student is viewing an actual class? Or are they more like college online classes would be, more of a lecture format?
I think videos like Baby Einstein are closer to child abuse than child development. Babies learn by touching, feeling, interacting and exploring, not by being little couch potatoes. Shame on the companies that foist this crap on parents and shame on the parents that buy into this line of BS.
Agreed. My son is fifteen months old, and he's never watched television. My wife and I read to him, play games with him, and take him outside - we would never park him in front of the idiot box even if some scam artist tried to foist her garbage off as "educational."
I was really angry to see the Baby Einstein founder as W's guest at the State of the Union - sure seemed like he was validating her crap.
Stupid stupid parents.
Here is a study that should scare the heck out of them. TV has been shown to cause autism.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/0435250&from=rss
They’re in a lecture format. There are some classes that are set up as live classes that interact with Christian schools and the kids can communicate with the teacher through an IRC system. My kids just watch the lectures, do the work, and we grade their work.
The best thing is that if they register with the Academy of Home Education through BJU, and attend 9th through 12th grade, they can obtain a Highschool diploma through BJU.
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