Tv and learning!

Well Tv is a strong medium of learning too but too much of anything in extreme has its side effects and do not worry, I have seen many bright kids laking creativity once they come of age as they lack the ability to think for themselves being glued to the tv all the time. Let your kid watch too but sensible creative programs like tricky tv and backyard science and see how well she picks up. Tv as such is a powerful visual and audio stimulant for kids but it should b used properly with kids to teach them.

I don't think the talking in full sentences is an issue resulting for watching tv - they are only listening. But in my opinion, the talking is learned from being talked to and TALKING BACK. My kids, my grand kids... me and their parents.. we talked to them all time. Hardly had the TV on when they were toddlers other than when we needed a break - they'd sit and watch BLue's Clue's and we'd take a break. but other than that, we included the child in everything we did. Baking cookies - my grand daughter had the receip memorized for sugar cookies and even was able to do everything but the baking part at age 2. I could go on with things like this - a age 3 she could make her own macy-cheese and harvested her own mint tea for warm tea in the mornings... the list goes on. The point - we included htem in everything we did. Told them everything were wer doing. Asked them questions so they could think and give an answer. We had them help with laundry and that was a favorite of theirs, they specificlaly asked me to wait to fold towels so they could help, and we had so much fun. THe main thing is to talk to your child. Let your child talk back to you. Have conversations. my little 2 year old GD tells me now, "well, actually, it isn't like that.." she uses that word "actually" all athe time!! To cute!!! My other one, now 9 said at age 4 a ramble (I have it recorded on tape and in her scrapbook) how her brain works - it faxes things and writes them on the pages in her brain ...etc. Cutest thing ever! The 2year old just chatters like a teen aget and people are always amazed that she can carry on a conversation with them. Buy 9 yearold was this same way. I have had more intelligent conversations with these two little ones, than I have had with many adults in my life!!!! Talk to them, teach them to talk to you. Vocabulary will be learned if it is taught. Plus, trust me, you are missing out on so much fun and amazement and joy if you let the TV do your talking for you.

my 2 year old is always watching TV I make sure she is watching educational shows though PBS is great for this Sprout rocks lol lol I see no harm in kids watching TV as long as they are learning my 2 year old says her ABC and can count almost to 10 without messing up she is very smart so I am told to me she is right where she should be but so many people tell me that she is really smart she watches the History channel as well But that is just what I think!

Yes. True. Children are learning to talk from others. TV may be helping babys to learn to talk easily and in the lesser age. If you are looking some families with 2 or children, the first child was started to talk at least 3years of old, but 2nd and 3rd children are started to talk their at least 1.5 years of old. That is the reason some parents are sending their children to pre-KG-LKG schools.

I think it really depends on what they are watching and why. My toddlers watch TV quite a bit. However I watch with them and I have them watch movies over and over to expose them to repetitive words. My children have delays in speech and they seem to show the most interest in speech when watching shows. I also have a movie that has taught them sign language. They learn it much better with the movie than they did from just our instructions. I think TV can teach children but it can also be used to replace a parents attention and that is not good for them in any way. It varies from parent to parent and child to child.

All children progress at their own speed. I know it's so easy to compare your child to another when you see them daily or weekly and you spend alot of time with them. TV does seem to have a little impact on how they learn developmental skills, but still i feel it's only if your child is ready to learn that and wants too. I sit and think gosh, my two children are complete day and night opposites. My son was my first so I had more time to spend with him watching tv, repeating words and so on, that has a big factor in how much a child learns. My son was talking very early, and now is in the advance placement in school... for my little girl who's 17 months old... she's not talking very well, don't care too either.. she can say small words, and only when she wants too. It's not that she's watching more or less of the tv shows, it's that i don't have the time to sit with her and repeat the words, show her things as I did with my son. I still feel being able to with them and you as a parent teach them the most.

I feel our kids can learn a lot better from their parents than Barney.

I think that it could depend on what the kids are watching too. There are some great shows on that help teach kids life lessons like sesame street and shows like that. I think those shows can be good for helping a child learn. But I think the parent working with the child does wonders too. They say that too much tv can cause attention problems in kids. I think that every kid is different and it would hard to say exactly what factored in the learning of each child.

I too think it depends on what they are watching. I know my daughter watches a lot of Dora, Barney, and Blues Clues and she is smart as a whip. I could see them not learning from things like Tom and Jerry and things like that.

Tv can be a valuable learning tool, but it can also be a time waster. It depends on what the kid is watching. My son has greatly benefitted from watching some of the shows on PBS, like Word World, Thomas & Friends, and Sid the Science Kid. He has learned a lot of things that I know I didn't teach him and thought he was too young to understand. However, I don't just leave him parked at the tv either. The milestones you gave had your friend's daughter doing some things earlier and your daughter doing some things earlier. Honestly, as a psychology student, I think there could be a lot of different reasons other than television viewing that are affecting these childrens' development. It's likely that a family that lets the child watch a lot of tv isn't interacting with the child as much as a family that turns off the tv and interacts with him or her. There are also other things that can impact this, though, such as the availability of social interactions with other children in daycare or preschool, the presence of older siblings, or the simple differences between children. Some children naturally develop at different rates than other children, regardless of environmental influences. That is why there are ranges in age for normal milestone developments rather than exact times. Tv could have some impact on what you're describing, but it hardly tells the entire story.