TV for Babies: Does It Help or Hurt?
By Alice Park
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1882560,00.html
New Words:
-Early parenting choices are never clear-cut, and deciding whether to allow you're infant to watch television or DVDs ranks as one of the more perplexing.
-"Initially it looked like TV-viewing was associated with cognitive development," says Schmidt, "but in fact TV-viewing is an outgrowth of other characteristics of the home environment that lead to lower test scores."
Definition entries for new words from Longman Advanced Dictionary:
~Perplexing:questions, confused and worried by something that you cannot understand in a difficult way.
~Cognitive: formal or technical relating to the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something.
Explain what the words mean in the way they are used in the sentence you chose:
-Perplexing is used in this sentence to explain that this is an article about some sort of confusion or question. This is well used in this sentence because just by re reading the sentence again you can get an idea that it has something to do with a miss understanding question.
-Cognitive is being representative in this sentence to show that they are now understanding and trying to prove a development on their topic. With this they are trying to say that they are narrowing it down to their final conclusion and that they are getting answers.
New Idea:
In her initial analysis, Schmidt found that babies who spent more time in front of the TV performed worse on language and motor-skill tests at age 3 than those who watched less.
This idea helped me realize how much it affects babies to watch T.V. I don’t think it’s correct for any type of school’s that is if we are talking about Head Start, Day Cares, Pre-K and other types of schools. If there has been studies that prove how bad it could affect the babies language and motor skills I think there should be something done in order to improve their speaking skills and simply just their education including their manners.
Tie-In:
TV exposure in babies younger than 2 doesn't do any good, Schmidt and Christakis agree. But does that mean a few minutes in front of the tube will sentence a baby to remedial classes for the rest of his life?
Tell a detailed story from your personal experience to explain the TIE-IN:
I would say that I have a strong opinion over the question they asked. I have never been a fan of watching T.V. or being on the computer as another relative source to watching T.V. I am in remedial classes and I cannot say that it was because I watched too much T.V. or even because I slacked of in school. If I ever watched T.V. it was certainly less than a hour a week. I would of never thought I would be in remedial classes for college specially comparing to what all the test say in this article I just read I could not compare myself in any way to what I have just read. One thing I do agree with them is how I have two nephews and one does tend to make better grades and be a lot smarter versus the one that does watch a lot of T.V. I think this should be more public because am sure that not many parents are warned about how bad it is too have their babies watching T.V.
