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The article doesn't mention radio. Is Car Talk is going to harm my child or just make him laugh at his own jokes?
by nutmeg 15y ago
The article doesn't mention radio. Is Car Talk is going to harm my child or just make him laugh at his own jokes?
- MartinCron 15y agoAnecdotal evidence. I listened to NPR a lot with my first child, and other than a faint liberal bias, he has turned out just fine.
- watmough 15y agoI'm acting to limit my daughter's exposure to TV, and this is a topic I'd like to make a more substantial post on, but until that happy moment, I'd just like to note that: "The real World often has a slight liberal bias..." edit: just sneaking a few minutes on HN while she watches Nihongo Quick Lesson on NHK (via Roku). Only a few shows actually really engage her, but this is one of them... She shouts and dances with the Mime guy for example. I think as with most things, the key is moderation, and a couple of hours of TV seems unlikely to do substantive harm in the context of a day that involves lots of play in the nursery, lots of reading with daddy and mummy, running about in the yard for an hour etc.
- watmough 15y agoIt'd be really interesting to know who would mod this post down, and why?
- MartinCron 15y agoNote, I didn't mod you down, but it was probably just the naked politics of it.
- Alex3917 15y agoYes, it will harm your child. Children can only pick up language by listening to people in the room, they can't pick up language by listening to the radio or watching videos. They also can't pick up language from people in the room very well if there is a radio or TV on in the background. No one is really sure why this is the case, but it is very well proven. (It's called the video deficit, even when you're just talking about audio.) If this weren't the case then you would be able to teach your kids the phonemes of other languages just by playing audio tapes of native speakers for them, but unfortunately this doesn't work so if you actually want your kids to be bilingual then you need to sign them up for an exchange for age one.
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- leftnode 15y agoMine has expressed an interest of becoming a lawyer at the prestigious Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe law firm.
- natgordon 15y agoThe difference with tv and radio is that you can still play with your child with the radio on.