TV, DVD doesn’t aid language development…
March 6, 2009
…according to researchers from University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Boston Children’s Hospital in August issue of Pediatrics.
No f!*#ing kidding. Really? </sarcasm>
Gizmodo says it better.
Please don't buy this crap.
Remember the thing about the baby carriages? I know that a some point, carriage makers will use that to guilt parents into buying their product.
So much of marketing of baby products is about generating and assuaging guilt. I’ll address this again in the future when I’m feeling less annoyed (the whole Kindle thing has me all poised for ranting).
More on buggies
March 2, 2009
Not the kind that require whips this time; baby buggies in this case.
New York Times brought to my attention the work of psychologist M. Suzanne Zeedyk of the University of Dundee, Scotland. Her recent study looked at two different types of baby stroller, those that face backwards toward the mother and those that face forward toward the environment:
Older "pram" style
A more typical modern style
What difference does it make, right?
