{"id":2763,"date":"2011-09-19T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2011-09-19T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:49:46","slug":"fast-paced-cartoons-causing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/fast-paced-cartoons-causing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-paced Cartoons Causing Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAuthor <a href=\"http:\/\/birthtothrive.thrivebyfivewa.org\/author\/Paul%20Nyhan.aspx\">Paul Nyhan<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/birthtothrive.thrivebyfivewa.org\/post\/2011\/09\/12\/Fast-paced-Cartoons-Could-Slow-Childrens-Problem-Solving-and-Executive-Functions.aspx\">Birth to Thrive Online<\/a> posted an interesting story this week on the effects of fast paced cartoons slowing children&#8217;s executive function.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/early\/2011\/09\/08\/peds.2010-1919.abstract\">new study<\/a> found that when a group of four-year-old kids watched &#8220;SpongeBob SquarePants,&#8221; a famous fast-paced cartoon on\u00a0Nickelodeon designed for older children, for only nine minutes, they did worse on problem solving, self regulation and other tests of executive function than a control group who played with crayons and markers. What\u2019s perhaps even more interesting is that children who watched \u201cCaillou,\u201d a slower-paced show on PBS designed for preschoolers, performed as well as the control group, according to the study published by\u00a0<em>Pediatrics<\/em> today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The research shows that we need to not only monitor how long children watch television, but what they&#8217;re watching. With the preschoolers delicate growing brain, it&#8217;s important to keep a watchful eye on just what stimulus and input the child is receiving. Read the entire article online <a href=\"http:\/\/birthtothrive.thrivebyfivewa.org\/post\/2011\/09\/12\/Fast-paced-Cartoons-Could-Slow-Childrens-Problem-Solving-and-Executive-Functions.aspx\">here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Paul Nyhan of Birth to Thrive Online posted an interesting story this week on the effects of fast paced cartoons slowing children&#8217;s executive function. &#8220;A\u00a0new study found that when a group of four-year-old kids watched &#8220;SpongeBob SquarePants,&#8221; a famous fast-paced cartoon on\u00a0Nickelodeon designed for older children, for only nine minutes, they did worse on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[336,672,673,674,13,675],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}