Report: 2 Years Should Be Playing Instead of TV Viewing

[beaker]

Just as it's been widely known that parents shouldn't be stuffing their Walmart carts full of high fructose corn fast food garbage and sodas to feed their kids every day, new reports strong suggest young toddlers and babies should be playing and have their imagination fostered...not sat in front of the boob toob like so many American parents do.

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-under-2-should-play-not-watch-tv-doctors-say

Heck other than Sesame Street, I would be hesitant to let any kind of mine watch tv until they were 5 or 6. Kids should be given blocks, crayons, non breakable toys, etc and encouraged to just create their own entertainment when a parent isn't directly playing with them. I even feel a lot of "emmy winning" toddler shows like Dora, Barney, etc isn't really that good for kids. When I was a toddler, I was taken to art museums, parks, etc.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Isn't this common sense?

 

[Drtooth]

Heck other than Sesame Street, I would be hesitant to let any kind of mine watch tv until they were 5 or 6. Kids should be given blocks, crayons, non breakable toys, etc and encouraged to just create their own entertainment when a parent isn't directly playing with them. I even feel a lot of "emmy winning" toddler shows like Dora, Barney, etc isn't really that good for kids. When I was a toddler, I was taken to art museums, parks, etc.

I hate how Sesame Street has to cater to 2 year olds, yet they feel said 2 year olds have to learn about engineering and multiplication tables for this reason. I HATE Baby TV (a real channel with garbage programming that doesn't work), and I HATE Baby Einstine/Baby Genius/Your Baby can Read scams. Though, I would say, if you HAVE to sit your kid down for a few minutes to take care of laundry or a phone call, you have to sit your baby down for a few minutes.

Now, I think people should be smart enough to know that even if they did sit kids that young in front of TV that it does nothing anyway, and kids will just run around and do what kids do anyway. How many Amazon reviews of Sesame Road and old out of print Sesame Street VHS have we seen that said "My 15 month old doesn't show any interest." OF COURSE he bloody well doesn't! He's 15 months old!

Now, I've been an outspoken critic of Dora the spastic only a role model because she's not white talks like an American Tourist 4 year old and Barney the Pedophilosaurus for years. Seriously... always hugging kids and telling them how much he loves them? This crap dumbed down kids' programming for years to come. I'm so glad filth like Teletubbies and Boohbah for those age groups that don't really benefit are long gone.

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Two words: Well, duh.

 

[newsmanfan]

Isn't this common sense?

Newsflash! Common sense vanishes from American cultural landscape! Authorities today announced a nationwide concepthunt for the alleged sense which, this reporter has learned, has dropped steadily from "common" to "occasional" to "near-nonexistent" levels in the populace for decades since its peak in 1933. All persons who believe they have sighted the concept are asked to please report its whereabouts to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Intelligence) so that it may be subdued and brought into captivity to be studied and bred back to sustainable wild-population levels.

Meanwhile, childrens-television viewing reports released today show reruns of "Barney" have dropped considerably in the---
*THUMP*

Unnngh...can some...one...please...get it...off me? I'm...wah-wah-WAHCHOO...allergic to inspidity... *faints*

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[Drtooth]

The more I think about this, the more I think that it's a report for all those idiot parents that get suckered into the medicine wagon show of Baby Einstein and Your Baby Can Read media. People who ARE trying to profit from junk science about kids learning earlier than they actually can.

Thankfully, they stopped airing Your baby can Read commercials. Now if we can just get rid of those high profits from house flipping infomercials....

 

[newsmanfan]

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Back when I was working at Bookmans I actually refused to buy any of those "you too can learn house flipping and become a real estate mogul with no money down" type of books. We weren't supposed to censor anything...but I'd take freakin' Hannity books across the trade counter before I'd stoop to encouraging the housing bubble!

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[Drtooth]

It's what I was saying in another thread. We're so obsessiveness compulsive of what we expose kids to, to the point we have to regulate the commercials for toys and candy. I hear the arguments and I can see a point. But adults have the minds of children AND buying power. Why don't we regulate what THEY can advertise to THEM?

 

[CensoredAlso]

But adults have the minds of children AND buying power. Why don't we regulate what THEY can advertise to THEM?

Because adults are supposed to be more mature than that. And they will never learn if everything is done for them.

 

[Drtooth]

Because adults are supposed to be more mature than that. And they will never learn if everything is done for them.

Key words:

Supposed and never learn.

They never learn if they do anything by themselves either.

Still, you'd think something that pretty much destroyed the world's economy and STILL is would face the same regulation that cigarettes (banned) and alcohol (not until a certain hour). I say we shoulda took those authors of those books and put them in jail or something. Eh, but the financial institutions that enabled them didn't either, so...

Seriously, adults are DUMBER than kids in most cases.