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It's also important to ensure the limited screen time is _quality_, especially for young children: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/ba
by jasonpeacock 2y ago
It's also important to ensure the limited screen time is _quality_, especially for young children:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/baby-tv-sesame-street-and-child-development https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/ba...
The take-away is you want them to watch "slow" TV that is not constantly triggering their attention centers and creating addiction.
- Jensson 2y agoI wonder how much of that is to help the child develop a sense for causality. Quick cuts makes it really hard to see what is really happening, if you have already developed your intuition you can piece that together, but it wouldn't surprise me if children develops a really bad understanding of the world if that is most of what they experience. Video games is a totally different here, since in order to play you have to develop some understanding while with passive video you don't.
- basch 2y agoEven past quick cuts, you have literal narrative shift. MTV, America's funniest home videos, TikTok are little bite site stories in rapid succession.
- voisin 2y agoIt would be great if someone kept a list of “slow” TV for parents to refer to. Have you come across anything like this?
- jasonpeacock 2y agoNot a maintained list, but I remember finding these recommended from a subreddit for slow children’s programming: Trash Truck Puffin Rock Snowy Day Tumbler Leaf David the Gnome Elinor Wonders Why Rosie’s Rules Bear in the Big Blue House Curious George