Monday, January 4, 2010

A Big Win for Babies


Here is an example of the practical and important work that MediaWise and the "Say Yes to NO" people are involved with:

Heard of "Baby Einstein"? It is from Disney. Check out a quick note about Disney reimbursing parents for their purchase because it didn't do what they promised - make kids smarter. (recent research indicates that screen babies end up with smaller vocabularies than their non-screen counterparts) It did, unfortunately, encourage many parents to put TV screens into the rooms of many (28%) of kids under age two.

Here is the link to check it out. As the article says: "Screens don't make babies smarter, caring people do".

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