7 Things 'Good Parents' Do (That Screw Up Kids For Life)

Obama · October 10, 2010, 5:35am

Re: 7 Things ‘Good Parents’ Do (That Screw Up Kids For Life)

7 Things ‘Good Parents’ Do (That Screw Up Kids For Life)
By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz Nov 12, 2009
#1. Showing Them Educational Videos

You’d Think…
We’ve all heard of those Baby Einstein educational videos, claiming you can park your one-year-old in front of them and have him transform into a Mozart-playing, Shakespeare-quoting nuclear physicist. Makes sense, children soak up knowledge like little kid-shaped ShamWows. The more info you give them during this crucial soaking stage, the better!

But in Reality…
You may have heard that Disney is offering refunds on its Baby Einstein line of educational DVDs. This came after a research team led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis from the University of Washington showed that babies watching the popular educational videos around the age of one learn six to eight less words per hour than children who spent their afternoons putting dirt in their mouths. It’s because, despite what you have been telling yourself for years, virtual interaction is never as good the real thing.

For example, these are not really your three girlfriends.

If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply** the buggers **with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the ****ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article/195_7-things-good-parents-do-that-screw-up-kids-life_p2#ixzz11rU5drf3
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article/195_7-things-good-parents-do-that-screw-up-kids-life/#ixzz11rRpkvsc

Calling Kids Buggurs shows the author has no respect for children why would any one listen to them?