"Children are often placed in front of a screen before they can talk, initiating a life-long habitual need."
Over the years I have become convinced that the single most important factor in the intellectual development of my brother and I was the availability of books and the absence of a television in the house between the ages of 5 and 8…
"Children are often placed in front of a screen before they can talk, initiating a life-long habitual need."
Over the years I have become convinced that the single most important factor in the intellectual development of my brother and I was the availability of books and the absence of a television in the house between the ages of 5 and 8. I first opened Gray's Anatomy because it was large and on the bottom shelf of the bookcase. When a television arrived in the house as a present from our grandparents, our younger siblings were unknowingly deprived of the advantage.
"Children are often placed in front of a screen before they can talk, initiating a life-long habitual need."
Over the years I have become convinced that the single most important factor in the intellectual development of my brother and I was the availability of books and the absence of a television in the house between the ages of 5 and 8. I first opened Gray's Anatomy because it was large and on the bottom shelf of the bookcase. When a television arrived in the house as a present from our grandparents, our younger siblings were unknowingly deprived of the advantage.
Just think about the number of folks today that have never smelled the smell of a really old used book store