Comments on: How to lower your child’s IQ in 30 minutes or less http://www.stolendroids.com/editorials/how-to-lower-your-childs-iq-in-30-minutes-or-less Geeks of the web unite! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zuke http://www.stolendroids.com/editorials/how-to-lower-your-childs-iq-in-30-minutes-or-less/comment-page-1#comment-880 Zuke Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:20:22 +0000 http://www.stolendroids.com/?p=954#comment-880 I can understand that to a degree. I wouldn't call a show "Educational" just because they give you an Honest-To-God fact in the last 35 seconds, but I agree that she's right in that age group where you'd expect kids to still pull something out of it that didn't dumb them down. My parents just taught me music appreciation at a very young age (including composers, symphony names, styles, etc) for a couple different reasons: They loved classical music themselves, They thought I was fully capable of appreciating it at an intelligent level, and They raised me in a time when there wasn't this sort of programming to parent your kids for you. It was up to them to teach me the stuff or I wouldn't know it at all. They were also a little extreme when it came to pumping my head with facts. I had read "A Brief History of Time" by the time I was ten, and it wasn't because I was brilliant. If your daughter is three and loves the show, I think that's fine. If she's 6 and still loves it and quotes it, you're doing her a disservice by letting her watch it. Of course, that's my opinion, and I've no right to tell other people how to raise kids. I can understand that to a degree. I wouldn’t call a show “Educational” just because they give you an Honest-To-God fact in the last 35 seconds, but I agree that she’s right in that age group where you’d expect kids to still pull something out of it that didn’t dumb them down.

My parents just taught me music appreciation at a very young age (including composers, symphony names, styles, etc) for a couple different reasons:
They loved classical music themselves,
They thought I was fully capable of appreciating it at an intelligent level, and
They raised me in a time when there wasn’t this sort of programming to parent your kids for you. It was up to them to teach me the stuff or I wouldn’t know it at all.

They were also a little extreme when it came to pumping my head with facts. I had read “A Brief History of Time” by the time I was ten, and it wasn’t because I was brilliant.

If your daughter is three and loves the show, I think that’s fine. If she’s 6 and still loves it and quotes it, you’re doing her a disservice by letting her watch it. Of course, that’s my opinion, and I’ve no right to tell other people how to raise kids.

]]> By: zohner http://www.stolendroids.com/editorials/how-to-lower-your-childs-iq-in-30-minutes-or-less/comment-page-1#comment-879 zohner Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:59 +0000 http://www.stolendroids.com/?p=954#comment-879 My daughter loves these Little Einstein thugs and their music instructing ways. Of course, she's only three and so she's their target demographic. I personally don't like shows like this for some of the same reasons that you mention here but they are considered "educational" and actually do have some benefits. For example, I have heard certain classical tunes for years but never knew who they were composed by. After watching a few episodes, I now the names of these composers. My daughter loves these Little Einstein thugs and their music instructing ways. Of course, she’s only three and so she’s their target demographic. I personally don’t like shows like this for some of the same reasons that you mention here but they are considered “educational” and actually do have some benefits. For example, I have heard certain classical tunes for years but never knew who they were composed by. After watching a few episodes, I now the names of these composers.

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