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+Infancy | October 20, 2011

Should Your 2-Year-Old Be Using an iPad?

By Sonia van Gilder Cooke

From “Baby Touch: Peekaboo” to “Moo, Baa, La La La!,” iPad apps for babies are flooding the market. Developers say the apps are educational, and busy parents know that a digital babysitter can buy them a few minutes of valuable time. But is the iPad a healthy thing for young kids?

+Obesity | June 27, 2011

It’s the Ads, Stupid: Why TV Leads to Obesity

By Alice Park
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How much TV do your kids watch? If you don’t know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.

+Childhood | September 7, 2010

‘Like Crack for Babies’: Kids Love Baby Einstein, But They Don’t Learn From It

By Maia Szalavitz
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When scientific studies first began suggesting that “Baby Einstein” videos might make children more like Einstein himself — as a child, he was taciturn and not especially verbal — rather than creating literary prodigies, proponents of the videos countered that the methods used in said studies couldn’t really prove that the videos themselves were the [...]

+Uncategorized | June 10, 2010

When too much screen time can be a pain

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

For some teens, more time spent in front of the TV or computer screen may mean a greater likelihood for recurring headache and backache, according to new research published this week in the journal BMC Public Health. For the study, a team of researchers from Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden analyzed TV, computer and [...]