Can Babies Learn from Ms. Rachel and Other Baby TV Shows?
We use screen time very sparingly (i.e. for a few minutes while I’m cooking if I can’t engage him in independent play at that moment and it isn’t something with which I can safely involve him; and never replacing real-life interaction), but when we do use it we choose Ms. Rachel. Not because I think my son learns from it directly (he may or may not), but because *my* listening to it- and interacting with it to the extent I’m able in the situation- helps me to learn and internalize the strategies she employs and use them more often and more effectively every day. So in that way, anecdotally, I do think it may be a better option that other “baby shows”!
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