Parents The Only Ones Learning Something Trying To Teach Babies to Read -- It's That They Can't
I had those friends who bought all the Baby Einstein tapes and started using them when their babies were in utero. And there's that commercial where two-year-olds are reading Shakespeare. But a new study has found that these parents can no longer feel superior. Babies cannot learn to read. “While we cannot say with full assurance that infants at this age cannot learn printed words, our results make clear they did not learn printed words from the baby media product that was tested,” says Susan Neuman, a professor in NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Teaching and Learning and the study’s senior author, at newswise.com Let's face it. We all want to believe our kids are special, even gifted. (My mother always used to brag I spoke in full sentences at one.) But the truth is that, while they may be, the only ones these products have an influence on are -- parents. In exit interviews, newswise reports, "There was the belief among parents that their babies were lea...