Archive for 'Television'

In-home care may double TV time

Posted 23 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Television, doodad read it | No Comments

A new US study claims that children in home-based childcare setting are watching significantly more television than those in center-based daycares.
The study found that among preschool-aged children, those in home-based daycares watched TV for 2.4 hours per day on average, compared to 0.4 hours in center-based settings. With the exception of infants, children in home-based [...]

How to raise a genius

Posted 06 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Education, Television, doodad read it | No Comments

What’s so wrong with raising little Einsteins? – The Globe and Mail.
Interesting article from Margaret Wente. We own the whole Einstein series and never had the impression or expectation it would make our kids brilliant (we’re hoping genetics will do that). For us they’ve been a little cultured oasis of calm when we or the [...]

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