{"id":5037,"date":"2017-09-21T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-52-14-78-51.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com\/?post_type=first-things&#038;p=5037"},"modified":"2019-06-18T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T17:44:00","slug":"television-videos-dont-help-young-children-learn-new-words","status":"publish","type":"first-things","link":"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/first-things\/television-videos-dont-help-young-children-learn-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"TV and videos don&#8217;t help very young children learn new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching television or videos \u2013 even programs billed as educational \u2013 does not help children under age 2 learn language.\u00a0Babies and toddlers learn new words and develop language skills by listening and interacting with caring adults \u2013 real talk from real people, not TV or videos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXoDdBZggwY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a fact proven by decades of studies and scientific research. But many parents aren\u2019t sure about this truth. A 2009 survey of parents of children age 5 and younger found that only half said it is\u00a0<em>definitely true\u00a0<\/em>that TV<em>\u00a0is not<\/em>\u00a0a substitute for interaction with a real person (Right!). One-third of parents said it is\u00a0<em>probably\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>definitely true<\/em>\u00a0that TV\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>as beneficial for language development (Not quite\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>Starting from birth, young kids need to hear words and have conversations with the people in their lives, which is a much different experience than sitting in front of a screen. A conversation is back-and-forth and responsive,while watching television is passive and one-way. In fact, studies have shown that, for children under age 2, watching TV actually delays language development \u2013 even quality programs.<\/p>\n<p>For older kids, high-quality children\u2019s programming can have benefits. For example, one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/baby-tv-sesame-street-and-child-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u00a0<\/a>found that children age 3-5 who watched\u00a0<em>Sesame Street<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood<\/em>\u00a0had larger vocabularies in high school than children who watched other television programming, or even no TV at all.<\/p>\n<p>But for very young children, there\u2019s no substitute for talk, conversation, books, songs and\u00a0stories. 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