A recent headline in the Daily Mail proclaimed:

Baby DVDs fail to boost word power: ‘Einstein’ show could do more harm than good¹
They went on to state that toddlers watching these DVDs had worse vocabularies than those who didn’t watch them.

Is watching TV good or bad for baby?

Other headlines have added to parents’ fears that television could be bad for baby:

TV Linked to Attention Deficit
Want a smart baby? TV’s not going to help
Does watching TV cause Autism?

By the way, on that last headline (from Time in October 2006) I can assure you here and now that, no, it doesn’t.

So, is TV bad for your baby?

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