Videos: Jaffke also installed an extended window seat in the Mannings' home, which she decorated with pillows. It's great for added seating when there's a crowd, as well as for storage. Similarly, she advocates choosing coffee and end tables with storage options for housing the overflow of videos and DVDs as well as board games for nonviewing occasions.
The mixed up experiences of science in the real world continue. Young children are avid watchers of TV which permeates and punctuates much of the waking day. The quality of educational or semi-educational programmes is undeniably very good or excellent, but left to their own devices children select cartoons, or watch and re-watch familiar favourite videos. Fictional programmes may, at best, do little to further scientific learning, but at worst 'popular' children's programmes may introduce false ideas about scientific concepts, resulting in confusion. Few children may receive a scientific explanation for those things that can be explained or a challenge to those found confusing and consequently fail .0 optimise upon their good start in life. |