TEDxRainier - Dimitri Christakis - Media and Children

Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician, parent, and researcher whose influential findings are helping identify optimal media exposure for children.

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[olimario]

This video confirms what any good parents already knows instinctively.

Read your kid a book and interact with them. Don't let TV babysit.

[zeeslot]

Dumpert....

[kia keenan]

Now i see what mistake i have done with my first child. I will not do the same with my second child.

[Ashtyn Kitty]

Ah. I see. And I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. I was just curious. Also, I would think that if your children are proud of you, and from what you say about being a parent, then that makes you a good parent.

[Ashtyn Kitty]

So not to be rude, but then what is the point you are trying to make? I'm simply saying that you can find good and bad parents everywhere regardless of social status. Money and number of children does not dictate how much or how less you love and interact with your child (at least it shouldn't, in my opinion). Also in a previous post you mention you have 6 children. The norm is 2 I believe; so where are you placing yourself? I would assume that you also think your a good parent?

[Ashtyn Kitty]

really? rich parents are better? these would be the rich parents that are buying their children ipads and letting them watch tv, not read them read books or play with them, what christakis said was low income... there is a difference between low income, middle income and rich... money has nothing to do with how good of a parent you are, i've met a lot of shitty rich parents and a lot of shitty low income parents, in contrast there are a lot of great parents from each income family...

[Rama F]

and confirms that rich parents are better parents. But we already knew that too.