Developmental myths and beliefs have been passed down for generations and now as a new generation, century, and life style is being developed more and more developmental myths are being created. Some are silly and harmless, but other are being proven by science to actually cause a developmental delay instead of developmental benefits. One of the new century myths is about making your baby smarter by watching baby TV. Some parents are trying to get their children ahead of the game and are using any method they hear to do so. Baby TV shows such as “Baby Genius,” “Brainy Baby,” and “Baby Einstein” are a few of the top shows being showed to infants. This style of parenting is becoming one of the forms of extreme parenting. The part of the extreme
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Some parents find it’s their time to relax, while their child is entertained by baby TV.
I first learned about this new phenomena in an article in the New York Post, which was discussing myths about children’s brains. The article stated that the average age a child begins to watch TV is about 5 months. (Aamodt, 2011) I was a little shock to read this. I knew that children were watching more TV than ever, but starting a 5 months of age was baffling to me. What surprised me more was that this was a parenting decision, not the child’s, so I wondered why parents were making this decision. The parents believed that baby TV would make their brain develop faster. I continued to read the article and it began talking about how instead of the children becoming smart and brain development improving, children were actually developing developmental delays, at a higher risk for language delays and at a higher risk for developing ADHD. So, I research it a little further. I landed on CNN’s story talking about a study researching TV exposure before the age of 3 years and its developmental effects. The research was done from Children’s Hospital in Boston and “monitored more than 800 children from birth to the age of 3 years of age.” (Park, 2009) Other researchers from Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, like the Children’s Hospital in Boston not only found no benefit, but actually found harm. They found that, “infants who watched the videos
Some parents find it’s their time to relax, while their child is entertained by baby TV.
I first learned about this new phenomena in an article in the New York Post, which was discussing myths about children’s brains. The article stated that the average age a child begins to watch TV is about 5 months. (Aamodt, 2011) I was a little shock to read this. I knew that children were watching more TV than ever, but starting a 5 months of age was baffling to me. What surprised me more was that this was a parenting decision, not the child’s, so I wondered why parents were making this decision. The parents believed that baby TV would make their brain develop faster. I continued to read the article and it began talking about how instead of the children becoming smart and brain development improving, children were actually developing developmental delays, at a higher risk for language delays and at a higher risk for developing ADHD. So, I research it a little further. I landed on CNN’s story talking about a study researching TV exposure before the age of 3 years and its developmental effects. The research was done from Children’s Hospital in Boston and “monitored more than 800 children from birth to the age of 3 years of age.” (Park, 2009) Other researchers from Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, like the Children’s Hospital in Boston not only found no benefit, but actually found harm. They found that, “infants who watched the videos