Barbie v Baby Einstein
This week in the personalized reading packets Rachel made up for us I had an article from Time Magazine. Barbie to Baby Einstein Get Over it discussed the skewed visions the media portrays of parental involvement and over achieving college students.
Barbie out sells Baby Einstein and is considered the choice of people who want their daughter to be concerned with vanity not intelligence. I'm sure playing your toddler Baby Einstein tapes does enhance it's learning from an early age, but I'm sure taking an active interest in your child's development enhances their learning as well.
Need I bring up the fact that Barbie was also a doctor, an astronaut and a business woman.
Why chose? I think just being an actual parent to your child and taking interest in their interests makes a big difference.
I also agree with the article when it said that currently parents are not as involved in teenagers high school experience. The media shows colleges as ominous institutions that only accept the best of the best cutting out high school applicants.
I can totally relate this idea.
posted by Raven Von Kaos at 6:59 PM
3 Comments:
I found out that now there are more videos or even videogames for young children that would help advanced and improved their leaning. I think it is important for the children to learn in an interesting way that would attract them, but more importantly, parents should be there interacting with the children and learning together instead of letting the TVs and Games doing the job.
10:42 AM
I totally agree on taking an active role in your child's interests, from when they are little babies, to high school and beyond. I think just leaving them with toys and such that'll hopefully educate them and build them independently as an individual, should be side dishes.
11:02 AM
Yeah, I agree that having your parents support for learning (not just plopping the child in front of the TV or computer and let Reader Rabbit take care of them).
I don't think Barbies are necessarily a bad influence on children. It's more up to the child's imagination rather than what she's strictly dressed up as. I don't recall that really ever being a limitation; I probably used toys more as separate identities than what they came as.
But I agree, parents need to be there and help their children. I think there seems to be a bit of neglectance (is that a word?) in this area as more and more things become more automated and interactive; they're still not human beings.
12:18 PM
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