When mothers don't have time to deal with pestering babies, they often turn on the TV to calm their children in noisy TV advertisements and various TV programs. However, I believe every parent has asked a question: Can infants watch TV? What kind of TV is suitable for watching? For the baby, is the TV program early education or injury?

Children under 2 years old are not suitable for watching TV.

65438-0999 After doing a lot of research, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) informed parents to avoid letting children under 2 years old watch TV, because letting children watch TV too early may hinder their development.

Babies watch TV differently from adults. When we adults watch TV, we can understand the logical relationship between the front and back pictures, and each picture constitutes a logical story.

Children under 2 years old are completely different. Babies don't think like adults when they are born, but only have some innate unconditional reflexes, such as rooting reflex and sucking.

Reflection, grasping reflex and so on. Piaget called the thinking development of 0-2 years old.

It is "sensory motor period". In these two years, infants learn and know the world mainly through hearing, sight, touch and hand movements. Thinking at this stage is intuitive action thinking. In other words, babies

Children mainly carry out concrete and direct thinking in perceptual actions. Therefore, watching TV for babies under 2 years old is just a flash of the picture. They can't organize these pictures into a continuous and meaningful story.

For an adult, TV is a TV series, then there is an advertisement, another advertisement, and then it continues to be a TV series. We can continue reading where we left off before, and the business interruption in the middle will not interrupt our memory and understanding of this story.

But infants are different. They think advertising is another story, another story. When the TV series starts again, they will think it is a new story, because their memory and understanding are not enough for them to remember and judge the relationship between the front and back pictures. So, let them watch TV too early, for them, they only receive confused information.

Many studies believe that watching TV too early may be the reason why more and more children can't concentrate for a long time. Like 2004.

Christakis of the University of Washington said.

A study by Dr. christakis found that before the age of 3, watching TV for an hour every day on average increased the incidence of attention disorder at the age of 7 10%. Although strictly speaking, this

The research only points out this correlation, and can't directly draw the conclusion that "watching TV causes attention disorder", but quite a few similar research results have pointed out this correlation, so parents should still pay attention to 3-year-old children.

Beware of watching TV before.

Can baby shows make children smarter?

Infants and young children should not watch ordinary TV programs, so is there any difference between programs specially designed for infants and young children and other programs? Can children's educational programs such as Little Einstein and Sesame Street promote the development of infants and develop their potential as advertised?

Let's take a look at the recent refund incident of Disney Company. On September 4, 2009, Disney Company issued an announcement, usually on June 5, 2004.

Users who bought the video or DVD of "Little Einstein" between September 4th, 2009 can get a refund of the original price. Disney's move is "a childhood without commercial influence"

(No commercial advertising.

Childhood is the result of the long-term promotion of this organization. They have data showing that the propaganda that "Little Einstein" is "educational and can improve children's intelligence" is false and deceptive. "Small!

Einstein occupied 90% of the baby media market and sold 200 million dollars of products every year. However, as mentioned above, studies have shown that watching TV for a long time between 1-3 years old is positively correlated with attention problems at the age of 7.

Close the relationship. In addition, there are many similar studies, and Disney avoided the accusation of the organization by way of compensation.

Christakis and two colleagues at the University of Washington, Frederick J ..

Zimmermann), Moore soff (Andrew n.

Meltzoff) found in a study that children who watch infant programs "Little Einstein" and "Sesame Street" from the age of 8 to 16 months have faster language development than those who don't.

The standard test scores are much lower. However, at 17-24 months, there is no significant difference in language development between children who have seen and those who have not.

You may say that children spend more time watching TV because some parents are not good at communicating with their children, and poor communication between parents is the root cause of children's language retardation, but in fact this kind of research usually controls this situation. More importantly, different research groups in the United States have reached similar research results.

These studies and Disney's refund show that this so-called baby-oriented project may not be able to develop children's potential best as parents think. If you don't watch such programs, will you let your children fall behind? The answer is: no.

For young children, interactive learning is better.

For this refund event, the Einstein Group responded like this: "Our primary goal is to encourage interaction between parents and children. how to improve

We have been discussing this kind of parent-child interaction. We will continue to provide parents with various choices to help them create more opportunities to interact with their children. "(quoted from The New York Times,

65438+2009123 October). It can be seen that the group doing infant education projects is very aware of the importance of parent-child interaction in infant learning.

Many studies have also confirmed that for preschool children, interactive learning with real people is better than learning from the screen.

In 2003, Patricia K.

Kuhl) did an experiment and read aloud to a 9-month-old baby. All the participants in the experiment are English-speaking families, so the experimenter reads Chinese books to the children to eliminate the environmental impact. Divide these babies into two groups, one is a real person.

Read to them; Another group of babies watched the videotape read by this person. As a result, the group of babies who listened to the real person learned Chinese pronunciation, while the group who watched the video did not.

Why is there such a big difference between real people and videos? Experts believe that when a real person is reading, readers and babies have eye contact and emotional communication. And the baby will be fine.

Look into the reader's eyes and see what the reader is looking at, so as to understand: "Oh, this thing is the name." Babies and scholars * * * pay attention to an object (also called * * * pay attention to joints.

Attention) can encourage the baby to associate this object with sound, thus strengthening learning.

So, when you want to teach children to learn letters or numbers, you may not need videos at all. Self-study should be the best way. No matter how good the education project is, it is also dull.

Yes, not as good as the real thing. No matter how realistic the flowers on the screen are, they can't compare with real wild flowers. Babies can know flowers by looking, smelling and touching. Let children know water from the screen, it is better to let children listen to the sound of water flow.

Sound, feel the feeling of water flowing with your hands, or soak your feet in it and splash. As mentioned earlier, infants aged 0-2 think through various senses and hand movements. These are obtained in various senses.

The most authentic and direct experience is most conducive to children's learning.

How to make effective use of TV programs

In today's society, babies can't be completely isolated from TV, but we can help children watch TV scientifically.

1. Control time.

Babies before the age of 2 try not to watch TV. If you can't watch TV, try to keep it below 15 minutes. Children aged 2 to 3 should also watch TV for no more than 30 minutes every day.

2. Choose the right program.

For children aged 3 and under, we'd better choose programs with slow transition. Little Einstein introduced numbers and water, but the picture changed slowly. Such programs will not cause a great burden on children's attention and logical understanding.

At the same time, choose some programs without plot. For example, every episode of the program "Bonnie (Purple Dinosaur) and Friends" has a theme, but it is based on

Singing and games are the main things, and the plot is not very strong. For example, in Thomas and His Companions, the picture shows that people are static and only the train is dynamic. This picture changes slowly and every story is very different.

Short. Slowly changing pictures and short stories are also suitable for infants.

3. If possible, it is best to watch the program with children and turn the program into an intermediary for children to interact with their parents.

Children usually like to watch a program again and again. When a child is familiar with a program, parents can use the pause button to stop the program and then use their hands.

Point to something on the screen and talk to the children. For example, watching Bonnie and Friends, there is an episode in which they go to the zoo. When it was put into the owl, BJ said that the owl cried like this: Woo! Whoo! We can press the pause button before BJ speaks, and then say to the child, "What animal is this? Is it an owl? What's the name of the owl? " Wait and see if the baby will

Will answer. Wait 5- 10 seconds. It doesn't matter if the child doesn't answer. Press the play button and watch.

BJ spoke, and then said to the child, "Oh, that's what owls call. Whoo, whoo, let's call together!" " "Watching TV together in this way can change the negativity of children watching programs alone.

And encourage children to think positively and interact with their parents.

4. Connect the program with reading and life.

Today's programs, such as Bonnie and Thomas, in Night Garden, Sesame Street, etc., all have matching books. We can associate TV programs with corresponding books. After watching the program, children are familiar with these characters and pictures, and then show them the corresponding books, which will make them feel very kind and interested. This can cultivate children's interest in reading from an early age.

Parents can also try to connect the knowledge learned in the program with real life. The children watched little Einstein's program about water, which made them feel real.

Water,

You can play with water, let the children watch the rain, and take them to see the sea if possible ... When the children watch Bonnie and her friends go to the zoo, their parents can take them to the zoo when they have time. In this way, children will connect TV with real things.

Let's deepen our impression and understanding.

5. Prevent children from indulging in TV.

On the one hand, parents should choose the programs their children watch and control the time of each watch. On the other hand, they should provide children with other activities besides watching TV: playing parent-child games with children, reading with children, taking children to outdoor activities and asking other children to play together ... children can participate in games and learn in games.

In this multimedia society. Educational projects can be scientifically used as an auxiliary means for parents and children to interact and develop their potential. However, the best way to develop children's intelligence and promote their development is for parents to interact with their children, observe their children and adjust their guiding behavior according to their characteristics. Nothing can replace it.