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by Daniel Friedman
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 We've heard it before: Too much television turns children's brains to mush. Research at the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute quantifies it. Lead researcher Dimitri Christakis and his team recorded everything 329 children said and heard during 12- to 16-hour periods. They analyzed the verbal interactions and concluded that when the television was on, children talked less and were talked to less. "Adults typically utter approximately 941 words per hour. Our study found that adult words are almost completely eliminated when television is audible to the child,” says Christakis. (Read the entire press release on TV and language.) The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Public Education (Pediatrics, 2001) recommends that kids under 2 not watch television. And baby DVDs and videos that are supposed to boost infant learning and language? Another study said they had the opposite effect for kids ages 8 to 16 months. Nice huh? Human interaction and play in the real three-dimensional world is better than anything on television. |
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[June 26, 2009 at 12:50pm] The first neighbor I met at after we moved assured me that I would gain a good fifteen pounds in the transition to a home without stairs. Our on-campus community is comprised of single-floor, former military brick houses which require much less effort to reach the laundry room from the den than our last house  [read more...] |
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[June 25, 2009 at 5:14pm] An Associated Press-Petside.com poll released Tuesday found that half of all American pet owners consider their pets as much a part of the family as any other person in the household. Um…what? As far as I can see, that is messed up. Really. Think about it. I know you love your pet. You would do  [read more...] |
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[June 23, 2009 at 8:53pm] Because I work with technology, I am often asked by friends and family members if I can fix their computer. I don’t mind. I am frequently flattered, but often it requires help that I can’t provide. Setting up my neighbor’s network was beyond my technical skill set. It’s rather like asking  [read more...] |
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[June 20, 2009 at 1:47pm] Our son Andy was interviewed on CNN this morning. Part of his job as a reporter for Politico is to appear on occasional news interviews to comment on stories he’s written or what he’s hearing from his sources.
It’s totally amazing to his father and me that he is doing this stuff. Dan and I watched him  [read more...] |
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[June 14, 2009 at 1:35pm] I try to go run each weekend on the local high school football field. It is a new, artificial-turf field that offers plenty of cushioning for my creaky joints. Almost every time I go, I find I am not alone on the field. I often run into private football coaching sessions for boys in their  [read more...] |
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[June 11, 2009 at 2:36pm] I felt so sorry for the young checker at Safeway who sold me these blueberries. [read more...] |
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