Bally
EAP1-B
04/04/2011

Reading Reaction Journal＃2

Reference:
University of Rochester (2009, November) Baby Einstein Controversy: Professor offers healthy language alternatives for young children
Medicine and health / psychology and psychiatry

Summery:
This article talks about the way to develops babies’ language ability. The specialist says that the best occasion babies to learn language is when they are infants, and the best way is to interaction with them. The most important point is to communicate with baby. Strong language skills can helps babies’ success in their academy. Also, parents need to be positive, look out what the babies are interested in, and find things that can attract babies.

Reaction:
The news about Walt Disney Company refunded the Baby Einstein videos, and acknowledged that these product were not intended to be educational or promote better brain development among young children, which is shocked me. This short preface tells me how much responsibility should a big company have! Many years ago people used to think the videos could help baby promote their intelligence, but now people realized it cannot. It is make sense to me. If just let a baby sits in front of a TV, and let him watches videos all the time, it is not good for his personality; he will become autistic, and loss the ability to connect with other people and living in his own world. This is an information age, we need to communicate with each other; like this article tells to us, and it is really helpful to training a person to positive and easy to communicate.