Teletubbies plot next move as they attempt to outmaneuver new rival … ;
The creators of “Sesame Street” are releasing a new line of videos Tuesday targeted for children as young as six months, outraging some child-development experts who feel no form of TV or video is suitable for kids under 2.
The DVDs _ part of a series called “Sesame Beginnings” _ are intended to be watched by parents along with their small children. Sesame Workshop developed the shows with help of experts from Zero to Three, a well-regarded nonprofit advocacy group.
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Yes ,it’s never too early to addicted to the infamoua one eyed brain sucker!
This is outrageous! TV for tots?
Have we no shame as a society?
Everyone knows the best place for a wee infant is at a computer screen surfing the Net…
Where were the ‘experts’ 6 years ago, when we would sit with our kids (starting at probably 3 months old) and watch Baby Mozart, Baby Bach, Baby Einstein, etc. Heck, my little guy (now 4) watched Baby Santa this last Christmas season! I do hope we haven’t ruined their lives. Oh dear, bad parents. Baaaad parents.
I think the child would be better served by sitting with them in front of an empty box (not the TV kind…the cardboard kind) and let the mind develop the sense of wonder and imagination. Worked for us. A little TV doesn’t hurt but sesame should be left to the grain farmers and bread.
Teletubbies suck!!! they should have left that mindless drivel in the U.K.
Any one who needs the electronic baby sitter for kids this young is unbalanced or below the level of intelligence and responsibility needed to raise a child.
Remember the Columbine kids were the product of being raised by pop culture in the absence of parental guidence.
You never really stop looking out for your kid’s development until they’re out of the house….most of the time the threats to healthy well adjusted development comes from peer/popular culture…itself the yoxic product of absent parenting.
The current marketing success for teen and preteen role models is a drug dealer/murderer who himself barely escaped death at the hands of other violent criminals.
“Sesame Beginnings” – Zoero to Three – Ritalin by Four, administered by Governemnt approved Unionized “Childcare workers”.
Geez!
The reality is that some parents, for whatever reason (poor parenting skills, a short break while dinner gets prepared, whatever), the TV ends up being a babysitter at some point for every age. Like it or not (I’m in the not category), that’s a reality.
So I think, if you asked the Sesame Street folks, they’d tell you that their focus is to provide educational, non-commercial alternatives to those parents who are already using the electronic babysitter.
Ted
Cerberus
To provide some opinion from the other side, my little guy could recognize and name all the major colours and shapes by the time he was two largely as a result of Baby Einstein videos, another series aimed at the 9mo+ category. I see no harm in this in moderation, as my son, now 3, is more interested in playing outside than watching TV. Evidently it didn’t rot his brain…
What’s next? Sing Along With Elmo, Sperm & Egg Edition?
Do I now attach my MP3 player earphones to my “package” instead of my ears when I go for my daily run in order to properly align my spermatazoa with the cosmos? Are Sony earphones better than JVC’s? Are they tax deductable? Will bull-dyke couples qualify for the same exemption?
If one doesn’t buy into this latest “early learning” socialist pap, is that considered bad parenting? Can parents be held liable should Junior fail to acheive a 175 I.Q. because of his/her lack of in-the-womb/prostate exposure to Mozart, books on tape and Ernie and Bert?
Will the CRTC and Health Canada issue a list of recommended/banned music and spoken word? If the prospective parents choose to employ a sattelite radio feed instead of pre-recorded music, is the Howard Stern Show permissible?
In the words of George Carlin, what ever happened to “good old fashioned, man-on-top-get-it-over-with-quick?”
Um, Eskimo, I think we’re just talking about Sesame Street here. Now I don’t really care what you do with your earphones – that’s your own business. ‘Kay?
Um, Ted, I know what the subject matter is. My beef is that modern-day child rearing doesn’t resemble Dr. Spock’s model from just one generation ago. Why is there such a rush to educate children at increasingly earlier ages? We want them in “play dates” at 1, playschool at 2, “pre-kindergarten” at 3, kindergraten at 4, grade one at 5 and then let’s heap on correspondence classes in the summer so they can graduate high school at 16 and get into university before the others so they can get that coveted “government job”. In addition to this, we’ve sexualized our youth through mass advertising then wonder why 10 year olds are learning how to use a condom in sex ed. class yet incidences of VD are rising dramatically.
Translation: what’s the @#$%-ing hurry? It was simply a “what the hell will they think of next/let kids be kids” type of rant, not to be taken internally. ‘Kay?
My oldest child is 8 and she’s never seen sesame street at home.
Just say no to politically correct leftwing tv.
I will let them watch movies preferably when I’m trying to sleep etc. But TV? they might think its ok to be liberal!
TV like religion should be turned off until the age of 12. Both these forms of mind modification should be completely avoided until a person is old enough to make educated decisions for themselves.
Just imagine how many fewer conflicts there would be in the world.
About eight years ago the AMA (American Medical Association) put out a directive that strongly advised parents with children under five not to allow them to watch any more than one hour of television a day (fat chance these days…).
They said that kids’ brains were being hard wired by all the subliminal and not-so-subliminal images being beamed at them in rapid-fire succession (the frenetic pace of Sesame Street was my biggest beef with it and the reason I much preferred my daughters to watch Mr. Rogers), which is why so many kids today can’t sit still in school and have the attention span of a flea.
A cupboard full of different-sized plastic containers, some old pots and pans, and a few wooden spoons, plus a few crayons and a stack of recycled paper, are infinitely fascinating to a young child, and a lot cheaper than an entertainment centre with fancy raise-a-genius DVDs.
BTW: My two daughters are both at university.
wlyonmackenzie:…correct me if I’m wrong but did I read a recent post where you indicated that you weren’t a parent? (took a quick look and couldn’t find the post that mentioned it…could have been someone else).
Thanx
More Illuminati mind control.
They want to get them started as early as possible.
What do you get when you cross a popular kids educationial program with FREDDY KRUGER? you get NIGHTMARE ON SESAME STREET BIG BIRDS got long claws and COOKIE MONSTERS getting a appitite for something other then cookies