Can talking to young children during TV time buffer screen time effects on development? Study suggests association between higher curiosity at kindergarten and greater frequency of parent conversation during shared TV viewing, especially for children from lower income families. — ScienceDaily

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Increased television time for young children has been linked with poorer progress in some areas of development. One possible way to counter those negative effects — talking while watching the screen. The more parents engaged in conversation with preschoolers during shared TV time, the more likely those children were to […]

When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids; could this explain the word gap? Tackling income inequality could boost low-income children’s vocabulary, new study suggests — ScienceDaily

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3 decades back, kid improvement scientists observed that very low-income young children read tens of millions much less words and phrases in their houses than their a lot more affluent peers by the time they attained kindergarten. This “word hole” was and continues to be linked to a socioeconomic disparity […]