Liam's picture fail

Every year we get the kids' pictures at the start of school. Liam (age 16 months) tends to be pretty clingy and was not too happy to get his picture taken. We tried on two different days but got lots of pictures of him scowling or crying. The one time he smiled, he stuck out his tongue.

Kinda cute, right???  I almost went with the one above but something just didn't feel right about the picture. Well, I realized what it was! Paul and I are watching The Office and this picture seriously reminded me of Kevin for some reason. The double chin...the sticky outie tongue.......I just couldn't do it!!!! 

So we went with a cute, but serious one! Dang you Office!

Fast paced shows

Check this out! I came back from our lecture today and found an email containing a link to this study, called, "Fast-paced TV shows don't harm preschoolers' concentration"

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=145059&CultureCode=en

WHAT?

Essentially, the study was on 41 preschoolers who watched a slow version and then a fast paced version of Postman Pat (a British children's show). They found that there was essentially no difference between the groups. I like that they watched the SAME show for both conditions. I hated that there are only 41 kids. That is pretty low to make this type of claim. Also, the study was just presented at a conference and has not actually been published so I don't have access to any of the stats.

I think this is an interesting example of what the media does with this type of study. Check out the title......okay, maybe it didn't in this particular study, but lots of studies have found the opposite. Also, Postman Pat is generally a VERY slow program - I wonder what the results would have been if they used something like the spiderman clip we saw in class?