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• Is TV Bad For Kids??

  We all do it, let our kids watch TV.  Well, accept you Amish, with your luxurious quilts, delicious fried chicken and inability to read these very words.  Sure, we limit the kids to Noggin and Sprout, but I think most parents still wonder what effect that television watching is having. Yeah, the value of Baby Einstein, for instance, is not quite as advertised. But is it all really bad for baby? Well now the results are in… I do like how this article begins, “Here's an issue your parents never had to consider: the great babies-and-TV debate.” Was I born during the depression? Did my parents have to curb my “radio fever” as I glued my ear to the crystal set for new episodes of “The Shadow”?  Maybe the author means parents didn’t have to debate it back then because in the seventies parents were just jerks. The particulars of this piece, and whether or not TV will rot your child, boil down to this:        Read More... Posted Mar 11 2008, 08:21 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, baby einstein, dora the explorer, tranquilizer, programming