{"id":565,"date":"2013-08-12T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/?p=565"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:10:55","slug":"childrens-advocacy-group-faults-learning-apps-for-babies-the-campaign-for-a-commercial-free-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/childrens-advocacy-group-faults-learning-apps-for-babies-the-campaign-for-a-commercial-free-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Advocacy Group Faults Learning Apps for Babies: The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tWe have all seen the commercials and the advertisements that tell us &ldquo;by buying this product, your baby will [insert marketing claims]&rdquo; However, do these applications really work? &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Susan Linn, the director for the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, these companies are &ldquo;marketing products as educational, where in fact there is no evidence that they are.&rdquo; You might recognize the name. This is the same organization that filed a complaint against &ldquo;Baby Einstein.&rdquo; As a result, Walt Disney Company, which owns &ldquo;Baby Einstein,&rdquo; offered refunds to consumers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;As app developers market similar baby learning products in a mobile medium, there is a potential to increase the amount of time that infants spend in front of screens which can affect their brain development&#8212;and is &lsquo;why we take this industry on,&rdquo;&rsquo; said Ms. Linn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tClick <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/07\/childrens-advocacy-group-faults-learning-apps-for-babies\/?_r=0\">HERE<\/a> to read more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:10px;\">Source: New York Times- August 7, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all seen the commercials and the advertisements that tell us &ldquo;by buying this product, your baby will [insert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}