Babies and TV

The NY Times has a piece on the role the TV is playing these day in babies' lives (Babies and TV's Making More Sense to Parents) (seems to be a lot on babies and TV in the news these days, brought on in part by the introduction and success of Noggin, Sesame Beginnings, BabyFirstTV, and other baby-targeted media).

This particular story reports on the results of a new Kaiser Family Foundation report which suggest that 61% of babies in America under 1 year old watch TV for an average of over an hour a day. I wasn't surprised by that, but I was shocked to read that a third of children under 6 have a TV in their room!

To read the entire Kaiser Family Foundation report (The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Their Parents), and find links to audio and video of the presentation of the report and a roundtable discussion of the report featuring childcare experts and media folk, go to the KFF website.