Comments on: For Kids Under Two, Steer Clear of Screen Time, Pediatricians Say http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/19/for-kids-under-two-steer-clear-of-screen-time-pediatricians-say/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Christopher Roy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/19/for-kids-under-two-steer-clear-of-screen-time-pediatricians-say/#comment-29979 Christopher Roy Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:40:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=32668#comment-29979 "Kids younger than 18 months, one study found, don’t even seem to care whether a video is played backward or forward—a sign they’re not really following what they’re seeing." I believe that. Babies <24months are still only forming concepts from what they see. Barely making sense of their stimuli. Even when focused, a television is still more visually, and audibly stimulating than other slow/quiet real things. There was a study, in a psychology class I took, that had a toddler look through a kaleidoscope. This was both stimulating and terrifying for the subject. But the baby couldn't look away. “Kids younger than 18 months, one study found, don’t even seem to care whether a video is played backward or forward—a sign they’re not really following what they’re seeing.”
I believe that. Babies <24months are still only forming concepts from what they see. Barely making sense of their stimuli. Even when focused, a television is still more visually, and audibly stimulating than other slow/quiet real things.

There was a study, in a psychology class I took, that had a toddler look through a kaleidoscope. This was both stimulating and terrifying for the subject. But the baby couldn’t look away.

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