Bed-sharing/co-sleeping
Due to the recent campaign against bed-sharing/co-sleeping, it is worth reviewing its benefits and disadvantages. Pearson in reference to Moon’s study states that bed sharing might be extremely dangerous for young children as it is recommended to avoid the encounter of toddlers with any hindering objects so that to prevent rolling over them while sleeping. However, as Moon points out, the findings were not officially proved and rely merely on the statistics of the cases of the infant's death in general (Pearson).
At the same time, Pyron supports the opposite view stating that bed sharing and co-sleeping has the long-term positive effect on children’s health. Not only they sleep more peacefully, but also develop more stable physiology and demonstrate long-term emotional health. Bedsharing is also said to decrease the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Personally I am rather indifferent to the issue as long as it remains safe to the baby which is probably caused by the cultural specifics for the United States does not belong to the countries with the long traditions of bedsharing (Pyron). Children at the early age demonstrate the fantastic ability to grasp the knowledge and information with the speed that is incomparable to the results demonstrated at the later stages of life.
Parents, teachers and policy-makers are responsible for providing children with sufficient support to enable and increase brain development which, to my mind, lies in the creation of favorable conditions for learning, stimulation, care and prevention of the negative distractive extrinsic influence. Education and development strategies that are based on real life interaction are particularly supportive to child development (Carey), whereas substitution of real communication with electronic devices, overreliance on videos and educational programs is said to be overstimulating as it entails high speed of image change (Park). Television viewing might hinder children’s cognitive development as the majority of videos does not promote the development of language skills, distracting children with the quickly changing images and scenes.
The language of the speaker does not resemble parental language and, therefore, it takes children longer to acquire the new words (Park). Moreover, sometimes children might not even be able to draw the line between reality and video they are viewing being not able to understand what is going on (Carey). At the same time, Hirschman Weiss mentions that videos might also entail parts of non-verbal communication which might help children to better understand the meaning of some words through visualization (Hirshman Weiss).
Works cited:
Carey, Benedict. 'TV Limits For Children Urged By American Academy Of Pediatrics'. Nytimes.com. N.p., 2011. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Hirschman Weiss, Shira. 'Breaking News: TV Is Not As Bad For Babies As We Thought'. The Huffington Post. N.p., 2015. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Park, Alice. 'Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews – TIME.Com'. TIME.com. N.p., 2007. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Pearson, Catherine. 'New Study Calls Bed-Sharing 'Extremely Risky' For Babies'. The Huffington Post. N.p., 2014. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Pyron, Jennyfer. 'National Expert …
