Young children should not be seen and not heard

Here’s new evidence that just surrounding babies and toddlers with language, by for example turning on the radio or television, is actually bad for them. This is at least partly because young children’s language acquisition depends on how often their vocalizations are responded to, as opposed to how much exposure they have to spoken language. For compelling evidence that this is so, I refer you to this previous posting. H/T to Chas

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