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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the screening-out-the-junk dept.

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has revised its guidelines on screen/television exposure for infants to allow for the indoctrination of 18-month-old children, from its earlier recommendation of 24 months and older:

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has announced new screen time guidelines for children aged up to two. It had recommended that children have no screen time before the age of two. But it now says children aged over 18 months can use video chat with family, and 18-month to five-year-olds can watch "high quality" programmes with parents. However, it also says physical activity and face-to-face interaction should be prioritised.

[...] Dr Steiner-Adair also called for more research into the benefits of educational apps, describing them as an "unregulated" industry. "I haven't seen who is developing the measures of learning for young children - what is actually going on?" she said. "What we do know is the toddler brain lights up for learning language the most when they are being spoken to in real life, face-to-face, by a caring adult. I would like to see more of how they assess the actual learning that goes on between 18-24 months [via screens] and how they compare it to learning from being read to by an adult from a real book."

Create a Family Media Plan here.

Media and Young Minds (open, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-2591) (DX)


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 28 2016, @10:56AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 28 2016, @10:56AM (#419791) Journal

    "most parents LIKE stuff like that "junk TV""

    As time passes, you see more and more parents who like that stuff, not because it's a substitute baby sitter, but because THE PARENTS LIKE IT!

    My own relationship with cartoons, over time: At ages 3 through about 8, I lived for Saturday morning and Hanna Barbera. That was better than Friday night and The Outer Limits, primarily because I didn't understand a lot of TOL. From about 8 to maybe 13, those cartoons were a distraction when I couldn't be outside doing something more important. The early teens, cartoons became a real distraction. Given the opportunity, I would just turn the television OFF so that I could concentrate on something, anything, that was more important. Older teens? Forget it, I had a car. Television was for kids and old people. Younger adulthood I spent in the Navy, and had no time for television at all.

    Finally, as a parent, I rediscovered television. Yeah, I took advantage of that idiot babysitter from time to time. Actually, I was kinda hoping to rediscover my old relationship with television - spend some hours in front of the boob tube, just enjoying whatever. But, the character of the television had changed a lot. The mindlessness of Hanna Barbera permeated all of television, it seemed. It was all pointless. Nothing to share with the kids - better to drag their arses outside and lose them in the garden patch. Or to find them squishing through the mud at the creek. Anything was better than television.

    The craziest thing about television? I find adults who live for that mindless drivel, just as I did as a child. Grown up men and women who apparently have no life, and spend hours of their day in front of that mindless nonsense.

    Is it any wonder that THEIR KIDS take their cues for laughter from a canned laugh track?

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