TEDxRainier - Dimitri Christakis - Media and Children
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician, parent, and researcher whose influential findings are helping identify optimal media exposure for children.
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This is a "must watch" for every Parent, especially Parents of newborns.
I am a Family and Consumer Science Teacher and I used this video in my Early Childhood Education class. I appreciate that the information is presented without significant bias and is grounded in research. I also enjoy the humor, and the clip from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood really brings back memories.. I do want to point out that, at the 3 minute mark, when Dr. Christakis states that we are born with 2500 synapses, which increase to 15,000 by age 3, those figures are PER NEURON.
May I pls ask what minimal bias you are noting ? much appreciated.
So glad for a friend sending this to me. It truly takes a village to raise a child.
It does take a village. And it is inspiring to see there are other moms out there who also believe that Kids shouldn't have unlimited screen time in the guise of educational apps. This is soo inspiring!
Cyberbullying is also very prevalent among teens nowadays which is causing anxiety, depression and unfortunately suicide. :( This is the kind of monster we are breeding EVERYTIME we say “But it’s just easier to plop them down with the iPad.” Or, “They’ll throw a fit if they don’t get to play with my iPhone.”
Really this has got to stop before anything tragic happens to our kids.
One of the best research projects. Television viewing really does cause delays and behavior issues for young children.
The point of this TED talk isn't to say that technology or media is inherently bad. It's just providing a conclusion from research on the effects of fast-paced media on childhood development. This talk gives off the message of knowing what your child is learning and interacting with.
Did u know that Media (aka 'MEDEA') was a Greek Goddess of Deception.
I think this was a great talk. No wonder why I feel so overwhelmed by certain pre-teen & teen shows that I happen to stumble upon sometimes while trying to find something to watch on tv. The kid actors there seem to be so hyper-active and it's difficult to keep yourself focused on anything...And don't get me started with all the colorful costumes and all the background sounds on those shows. I always find myself drifting towards watching PBS shows...
Thank you for this crucially important information about how media affects children.
Feynman is one of my heroes, which is the main reason I'm replying to you. While I understand what he means by the rigors of science, one cannot dismiss the work of social scientists based on a 16 minute TED talk. Dr. Christakis has dedicated his career to studying the effects of media in children. He and others have conducted MANY studies and there are many correlations that provide interesting questions in these studies. I know there are quacks doing pseudoscience out there, but this isn't one
Every young caring mother should watch this!!
This video confirms what any good parents already knows instinctively.
Read your kid a book and interact with them. Don't let TV babysit.
excellent. really excellent video. i wish i had known this with my first baby. he watched too much baby einstein...and i thought it was okay. i knew instinctively it wasn’t the best but i thought well he loves it and it isn’t as crazy as cartoon network. if i could go back i would read to him more, draw with him more etc. My second baby has barely watched media and she plays so much with toys. God can restore and now I know. But I would have done things differently. Every pediatrician needs to emphasize the screen time recs (NO SCREEN TIME UNDER ONE) and emphasize the importance of playing w ur baby and reading to them
Mr Rogers was a super hero. Love that guy.
It's such a huge topic. This talk was about attention span, which is important. Too much screen time, no matter the content, can affect a child's eyesight and ability to sleep as well. Which is why I worry about schools giving their Kindergarteners iPads. It's an untested field we are entering.
My nephew who was raised with watching high pace youtube videos and lack parent interaction ended up diagnosed with ADHD and speech delay. Poor kid, I wish I was there to teach and play with you.
That’s sad but I just want to throw in that it’s not that easy: I have two friends who offer unlimited screen time to their children and both are advanced when it comes to speaking. Another friend doesn’t allow screen time and is very involved with her son. He is speech delayed.
My daughter is allowed little and only educational screen time and is verbally very advanced. H There seem to be so many factors that contribute to how a child turns out and sone things are just unpredictable.
Teaching new parents Infant Massage is the #1 way to begin the 'bonding' process. That is time well spent with the babies. It not only sets parent and baby on the road to a lifetime of communication, it speeds up the formation of the neural pathways to the brain, increasing the synapses needed at the time for growth. Following the progression taught, the massage can be easily adapted throughout a child's first 10 years to establish a lifetime of trust, discrimination between good and bad touch and dealing with life i general.
Great lecture!
I totally agree! Parents need to spend more quality time with their young ones and not give them to TV. I know it's not an easy task but well worth it at the end.
I miss Mr. Rogers. One of my favorite shows as a kid. :-)
Excellent!!
so wonderfully explain
Wow this is an eye opener! Thank You! =]
Great vid. unfortunately i watched tv at a young age so payed attention bout half the time.Damn telly!
Well, the evidence is pretty impressive.
I suspect this will lead to even more studies with the same general conclusion.
Media serves the parents not the children
There is a lot of people here that are saying to not let their child watch any television but i disagree. Not all television is bad for children (i.e. like they showed Mister Rodgers), however what a child watches before the age of three should be heavely monitored, and more time should be spent playing with the child compared to time watching television.
The media can teach children many things, but can also do them harm, there are good sides and bad sides. Some PSA's in children shows can educate the child, but also some more violent media can make the child normalise violence. You need to separate the good from the bad. For a 3 year old, the Powerpuff movie would be over stimulating but for a 8 or 9 year old it should not be too damageing.
At the age of 7, i think maybe at max 3 hours of television during a week day shouldn't be that bad as long as the child is also playing with their parent or other children.
Yea
what an eye opener, with regards to info, but on some level I knew this already. My child was not exposed to television until she was 2 and she does not like watching cartoons now, only full length movies. And she still only gets to watch tv about once a week, sometimes not at all. We also don't have normal tv, so there are no adverts, we only have DVD's. I think that is rather good, considering that we are a normal technological family.
Normal in what way ?
@@rainbowpandasays8851 normal meaning we are neither luddites nor amish nor anti-technology. My husband is a coder, we have social media profiles, and we both understand that technology has great value in society. At the same time, we want our kids to understand it as tools, that their attention is a commodity, and that they are in charge of who receives it.
This was a decade ago… I need to perhaps watch this video again…
Hey, a TED talk that isn't garbage. nice
He's pretty funny. I enjoyed listening to this and learned some stuff. Technically we might be lower income but my son scores advanced on everything but it really doesn't matter. I am just happy he is healthy! I put educational games on my ipad for my son and turn off the wifi and allow him to play those sometimes. They're matching shapes and letters and numbers and stuff like that...but I don't allow my toddler to watch anything til the end of the day for less than half an hour a day. I encourage him to play with toys and set up play stuff for him! We do playdough and painting and lots of stuff like that that I buy at the dollar store...I do use the media time as motivation for him to get through his bedtime routine and picking up his toys. We read almost every night the library is the best cheap source of books! They always have books for sale for like ten cents a book or somtimes $1/book...I think media time is a treat. But some educational media I feel is good but definitely not to be used in excess. We like Max the train, and Sesame street...Ok that's what works for us...He's two and half. I think I will use media time with caution after hearing this though. :)
You're doing great! And don't forget that it's okay for him to be bored sometimes. When we were young and bored, that's when we really used our imaginations.
thanks alot
Interesting he used the Baby Einstein picture - I shot that and have copyright was a shock to see it here 😂
Very interesting
OMG so this guy that I used to see in television lol and not even understand what he was doing was called Mr. Rogers XD OMG this brings back many memories!
Great Presentation.
thanks
This is about rewiring human beings for "peace", by removing our ability to think for ourselves. This is about what Unesco refered to as "erecting the pillars of peace inside the minds of men". I guess they were quite literal :)
Check out Julian Huxley's writings - before joining Unesco, he was a zoologist. Skinner himself did loads of animal experiments when developing his extremely influential ideas about the education of human beings.
Read about eugenics, as it ties into this as well.
* Thanks Dimitri; may the Gods of funding shower you grants.
* Mr. Rogers clip at 9:40 -- priceless; great contrast, great examples.
* "we need real time play and less fast paced media" -- logical, but don't low income pops come with other confounds?
* You had me till the mice. Kinda different than a kid.
* Love "change the beginning of the story, change whole story" (aka Perry Preschool Study).
* Wish you'd differentiate between interactive and non-interactive screens.
Great talk!!!!
I was thinking about the low income population as well. How do we overcome their barriers for real time play?
Oops, here I am not being able to watch videos unless they're on 1.5x speed....
@capgains I don't have attention disorder, but ASPD. So... boredom, easily distracted, forget things, don't finish/frequently switching from one activity to another.
I would be interested on his thoughts regarding modern internet "gaming" in this context as well.
The point where he says that "educational" programming didn't make a difference in attention span should have been clarified. "Baby Einstein" was bad, according to the parameters in his talk, because of the pacing of scene changes. But "Baby Einstein" is promoted as, and commonly thought of as, "educational" because of its content. Would have liked more clarification on this point. Does content count, or is it only pacing that counts?
I would say pacing is more important. Even if educational, if it’s too much change/high pacing, it would be too stimulating for the young brain.
Is there a follow-up video on what to do if your kids are now 6, 9, and 10 and you didn't know this stuff when they were babies? Is the 'damage' reversible?
Good video
@zakariski Well said!
Is there a link to the mice experiment anywhere?
What cognitive stimulation can I do with a 16 month old?
Thank you for this! I argue so much with my mother about this because my son is a bad eater at times and she wants him to watch tv and he eats better when he does . It’s a mess . She always does it when she comes over .
Regarding the clip from Baby Einstein that plays from 5:40 - 6:00, Dimitri says that there were seven scene changes. Does anybody else think that's an inaccurate statement?
There are 6 counting even the static image at the end so ...yeah
it's impossible for a child not to be exposed to media unless there is some kind of extreme circumstance. it does take time and repetition for the media training to take place and the creation of desire doesn't happen in one view. I don't think we ever outgrow "play" or "toys." We're led along and trained to develop finer tastes that are more expensive. children's media is the boot camp for adult media. the parallels between kids media and adult media are outstanding because the kids' media is exactly where the training takes place. toy and media makers are about keeping business going. so training kids at a young age to adapt certain habits in a certain way helps them to grow up to be the perfect type of consumers who will respond on cue. i think modern technology gets too much credit for helping us in becoming imaginative. it may help some people, but for the most part it made a generation of gullible consumers even more passive.
I watched this on TV!
Operant conditioning has long been part of our lives. Nowadays, even game designers openly write articles discussing the use of such techniques. As a species, we are being prepared/trained for a future we did not choose. This has a lot to do with transhumanism and posthumanism. This has everything to do with merging with technology. We are being conditioned to function as information-processing automatons, with no thinking between the stimuli we receive and our responses.
@FIntyMAcC10 What do you mean, "Not at all"? The damage is not at all reversible, it is permanent?
Can someone please give me the link of the scene from Mr Rogers?
it seems that this is a problem for adults as well...I wonder what you can do to reverse it?
@puppypincher didn't you see he also cited a study where seattle parents and their kids were given building blocks to play with, there were 2groups: one who recieved blocks later than the other and they examined the effects of language produced. those who received blocks later scored in the 40th percentile (42% i think it was) and that's pretty low. i think you could even cite real life examples of TV's detrimental effects on cognitive development.
I wonder if the effects hold for slightly older children watching fast paced tv/movies.I would think that they do.
Not as much as when the child is below 4 years. It is during the first 4 years of life when interactions with the world help form the lasting brain connections in children. If a child never watched television until they were 5 or 6, their brain development wouldn't be as affected as a 0 - 4 year old.
Yes. While it is most important for young children, even as adults it affects us. When we take breaks from social media or TV and take a class at a college instead, you can feel your brain rewire. It's just more of a challenge. It goes both ways. Our brains are a muscle.
Was Mr. Christakis' study of children and screen time controlled against high soft drink (caffeine and sugar) consumption? There may be a similar correlation
@puppypincher i took your initial comment to mean that you believed no human studies were cited, which is why i responded to your comment. I also believe animals shouldn't be used for testing since their physiology is so different to ours and such testing has had grave consequences on humans (Thalidomide being one example of a drug which passed initial tests on chimps but affected humans badly) - but youtube didn't let me post it ><
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.
Here is their article. www.nature.com/articles/srep00546
+Bene Ramirez Thanks!
this couldn't be any closer to the truth
And viola... Rising rates of childhood ADHD is explained
is ADHD more of a manufactured and modern disorder or can someone be actually born with it?
o shah I am ADHD, it is a neurological disorder, usually inherited, that we are born with
www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2010/WTX062886.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw0LmoBRDHuo7UkaKXhn8SJADmDTG098OFEpjKu2zWIPxX3MeFoNXpjoPUx_LyhDP53HaytBoCnbrw_wcB
What the Tedx talk demonstrates is the adverse effect on the developing brain of babies, who are exposed to TV in their early years, which then leads to problems with attention in later life. Problems with attention is only one aspect of ADHD...
correlation vs causation debate. i don't believe genes make you act in any particular way...just propensity as brought about by environment which the article mentioned. thanks for the feeback.
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hahahah, priceless. love the username btw!
Now i see what mistake i have done with my first child. I will not do the same with my second child.
@BassBwoy3 nothing wrong happens to kids who watch shows like this when they are 10 and above, you don't have to worry. he's talking about little children
Do you have more children videos??
@MartialShot HIS theories? They're not just his dude. They're pretty common and accepted.
...Dugo sam razmišljao kako da ti odgovorim. Na kraju sam shvatio da bih u samo nekoliko jednostavnih RUclips redova morao da sažmem suštinsku razliku između tebe i mene očigledno veliku k'o sam univerzum. To je, naravno, nemoguće. Ti i ja se nikada ne bismo razumeli. Ti i ja ne pripadamo istoj zemlji, a kamoli "demokratskom društvu". Savetujem ti da pronađeš nekog drugog na koga će tvoje reči imati više uticaja, bilo na Internetu ili uživo. Želim ti mnogo sreće u tome, pozdrav.
read them books people! kids love books! No ipads, games or longs tv hours for my kids, let them be kids, let them play outside on the grass with balls, rocks etc, get dirty and tired! I hate media and all kinds of ipad games no matter how they tell me that the games could be good for the kids!
Is it possible to reduce this damage?
more cognitive activities with your child reduces the likeliness by 30% and hour
Absolutely. If they are young enough, cold turkey will really help. Otherwise just influence them to go outside with no tech. Roadtrips with no tech, etc.
What about older children watching TV?
To all out there who are adults, what are the consequences of having an attention disorder?
I think it is right that we condition ourselves to expect stimuli. Why? well because if you don't we wont be capable of taking in all the media that is going to bombard us in the future and be able to sort it fast and efficiently. This sitting down in a class room and reading a book is degenerative, wouldn't it make more sense to ba able to use the most of your mind at all times? There should always be a time of relaxation regular amounts of sleep, but that's hard.
@IOUthelove For me, the important thing is to push the TV into the backgound of your life. It should NEVER be central to a person's free/ leisure time. Very young kids should not watch TV, as they do not yet have the critical mind, or life experience to filter out the bullshit and propaganda on TV. TV just is a one way communication. The viewer is just sitting there. It is only good in small controlled doses.
12 people couldn't sit through the entire video and disliked it.
-Cartoons made with the purpose of entertainment are NOT made for ages 0-3.
-There are many pros and cons with having ADD. Adults with ADD function fine with living, but the problem is that they don't learn things the same way other people do, and society sticks to lectures and readings as the only way to teach. There are many people with ADD/ADHD with incredible accomplishments that use their creativity and problem solving skills.
-It is important not to leave your child addicted to ANYTHING and always spend time with them. THIS DOES NOT MEAN SHUT THEM OFF FROM TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA ENTIRELY!
-The blocks experiment was off topic. Of course it's better to train your brain and interact with parents than to do nothing.
-In conclusion: play with your children, let them use technology, ADD is not the end of the world (nor will a controlled amount of media cause it), and make sure they watch cartoon network only after age 5 or so because the target demographic is pre-teen.
I completely agree
I aggree
@edgardusXII all i know is as long as corporate greed continues you will have more and marauders roaming the streets, see a lot of angry people out on streets anymore, i walk ride a bike, take bus, you see everything and hear everything also. I like talking to street people cause have learned lots of info i wouldn't hear driving a car everywhere. It is called street smart. Can talk to those people also.
Wow... Doopelganger of Joe Mantegna...
***** Wow I was just thinking that!!!
***** Really? O.o
Kids raised without TV don't have ADD. Rings true 100% of the time.
Yeah Baby McDonald was part of the later series which was much worse. The Ones made from before 2000 are much better at stimulation. Julie Clark knows how to treat children, not Disney.
This is really beautiful. Seeing there are still parents out there who believe that Kids shouldn't have unlimited screen time in the guise of educational apps. Yes we all want our kids to be Happy and healthy. But parents, WE ARE ALL tired and often, our actions show that what we really want for our kids to be quietly occupied not HAPPY and HEALTHY.
For centuries that was achieved through rocks and sticks and imaginations, comic books and a bit of tv. And now we have the iPad and the smartphones. But while they are great restaurant distractions, do you ever wonder what those touchscreens are doing in those growing little brains?
Cyberbullying is also very prevalent among teens nowadays which is causing anxiety, depression and unfortunately suicide. :( This is the kind of monster we are breeding EVERYTIME we say “But it’s just easier to plop them down with the iPad.” Or, “They’ll throw a fit if they don’t get to play with my iPhone.”
Really this has got to stop before anything tragic happens to our kids.
I find it sad that Moms think it is okay
i was hoping he'd talk more about violent and/or sexual content children get exposed to on television. if something is disturbing, i imagine that would have an effect on our overall ability to focus.
Sexual contact is not disturbing to a child lol
If you don't already know that TV/Baby Einstein/Violence are bad for your kid while that social interaction and book reading is good for them - you likely have much bigger problems.
what i want to know is why are kids automatically attracted to the tv rather than building blocks or something...
Here at an LAUSD Gifted and Talented Presentation and Dr. Lucy Hunt recommends this. www.parentseducationleague.org
My son shows autism sign behave after watching tv for 4 to 16 hours a day for 2 y 2 m of age . He can not stop doing unusual movement
Hi
how is he now?
@photonuttt Not at all. They are programmed whether they know it or not
I'm glad that, though we had TV when I was growing up, -3 channels- it is nothing like tv of today.
TV really serves no purpose anymore except "entertainment". And I think people are way over-entertained these days. I seriously wonder, if the power should ever go out for an extended amount of time how many people would go insane from lack of their drug. Television.
talk about facebook
@MartialShot Not thinking outside the box? Most people never even consider these ideas. Only the few with enough common sense to take the time to think about it actually come to the rational conclusion that television causes ADD. I have no doubt that you're successful (although apparently you struggle with grammar); nobody is claiming that watching TV affects everyone to the same degree. But it has a more pronounced effect on some than on others.
@Namaste1001, not to mention (but I will) they call the stations "channels" so are they or we channeling evil spirits when watching TV ?
А где найти это видео на русском?)
My right ear is lonely
Rapid scene changes, much less, showing sheep at a weird angle, interspersing puppet/animation and real scenes, etc....guaranteed to trigger weird developments.
There was huge change in minds/development between non-literate to literate transitions in history. Changes in mind-wiring have been coming faster and faster, with new tech developments. Now, whole generations of people with attention spans of gnats; and for some reason, this is happening to adults, too.
MAYbe electronics are Not what they're cracked up to be.
MAYbe we really need to keep our paper books, that can be taken with us almost anywhere, and read, say, sitting out in actual nature. MAYbe, all the kids with high-functioning ASD, could have some better adjustment, by spending more time in nature.
PLEASE bring back Mr. Rogers! It's invaluable!
Any who still believe that all the violence, in all forms of media, are safe, are deluded.
yeah, and what about the people who live 200 years ago and didn't have any tv or other media, they were much smarter en learned much better than the people now?
alguém tem em português?
tu pode acionar a legenda automática do youtube.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE". This government report will give you a good idea about what is planned for the future of your children.
and confirms that rich parents are better parents. But we already knew that too.
@puppypincher OK...so how do you know that the shampoo, or the skin cream that you use is safe ?....Doh..... I guess they tested it on an animal. Would you use skin products that hadn't been tested on animals? I wouldn't !
He’s talking about cartoons long shows ? What about the hard core Tiktoc, Snapchat, Instagram??
This talk was 10 years before all those existed.
TV IS GARBAGE, THROW IT UP