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The man who co-founded the “Baby Einstein” videos enterprise but no longer owns the brand is suing the University of Washington for release of records, data and research methods relating to studies on kids and television.
William Clark, who along with his wife Julie Aigner-Clark, launched the company back in 1996, said in a press release earlier this week that he asked a judge to order the university to release records of two studies that concluded young children who watch television are at a greater risk for attention problems and language delays. Continue reading »
It seems that the recent refund offer by Disney was the spark that reignited the flame of a decades-old controversy: Is television harmful to tots? Are we a society of lazy, selfish parents that use the screen as a live-in babysitter? And if so, are we creating a society of mush-brained mutants that call the remote “Daddy”?
Julia Pimsleur Levine, mother of 2 and creator of Little Pim, an educational foreign-language DVD series for the toddler set, has weighed in with the following letter:
Sesame Street is the ne plus ultra of kid’s shows, the one show most of us don’t feel guilty flipping on for awhile so we can do something crazy like eat a meal or go to the bathroom. While it’s not the totally wacky and hilarious show I remember from my own childhood, there’s still that wonderful sense of gentleness, for lack of a better word. Monsters, kids, and grownups all peacefully coexist, life’s challenging moments (economic woes, the death of a neighborhood friend, the arrival of a sibling) are all gently explained, and the mysterious world of letters and numbers and colors is unlocked in the most fun and subtle way.
The show’s changed a lot since my childhood and feels more commercial to me. But those changes — and indeed the show itself –have been rigorously, carefully researched from the very beginnings.
According to this interesting Miller-McCune article, Continue reading »
Sometimes we learn more about ourselves through the lens of another culture. For instance, who knew that Bert is a razor-toothed, screaming, jaundiced man with a giant flap of skin dangling horrifyingly from his neck. And who knew Ernie was such a perv. The Japanese knew, that’s who.
As I’ve always said, the best way to reach kids is by framing the lesson through the malaise of post war America.
Yeah, Elmo’s been know to bust a move, but he ain’t got nothing on this toddler. Hey Elmo, you like panckakes? ‘Cause you just got served. This kid totally OWNS that muppet. And really, don’t we wish all conflicts in the world could be resolved in dance battles?
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