Diaper Daily News: New study on infant television and video exposure

It wasn’t long ago that Baby DVDs were said to hinder an infants’ language development. On May 5, 2008 the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine study released figures that concluded that mothers were not interacting with infants at TV time. Social, motor, behavioral, cognitive and neural skills were being hindered by TV and DVD.

From the BusinessShrink.biz:

The bottom line finds that if an infant is exposed to TV, they have very limited amounts of mother-infant interactions that report at one fourth of all TV viewing the infant is exposed to. While the figures show that mom’s interacted with infants more when viewing educational children’s content they didn’t spend more time coviewing, which in turn didn’t lead to any increased interaction. The final conclusion this study has decided upon is that they don’t really support educational media produced for infants two years and under unless there is someone interacting and coviewing the content with them.

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Sara says: “The only TV I watch is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. And during the viewing Daddy explains all the jokes to me so I get plenty of interaction with him.”