If your baby is staring at the TV, he's probably not developing his language skills.
Most parents use their TV as a babysitter every now and then.
It gives you time to wash your hair, make a meal, or go to the bathroom in peace.
But you probably do this as infrequently as possible because you’ve already heard of the studies linking TV watching to delayed language development.
Now a new study finally uncovers the reason for the link between delayed language development in your baby and letting your baby watch television…
Here’s just one of the reasons for the delay in baby language development:
“Adults typically utter approximately 941 words per hour. Our study found that adult words are almost completely eliminated when television is audible to the child,” says Christakis. “These results may explain the association between infant television exposure and delayed language development.” Christakis adds that this may also explain attentional and cognitive delays, since it has been posed that language development is a critical component of brain development in early childhood.
See, your baby isn’t going to interact with the TV as much as she would if she were interacting with YOU.
So if your baby stares at the TV for long hours, that means less “conversation” with Mom and Dad and also a delayed development in speech.
Click through to the full article for more about these new findings – including information about the high-tech gear the babies wore during the study to track their language development patterns.
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