MSNBC'S Kasie Hunt is a proud millennial mom who plays records for her newborn...

[Skya Rhen]

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[Mme. Defarge]

1. Vinyl rules!

[Kahuna7]

7. It does. You can't beat the warmth of vinyl. This topic made me check out

two of my favorite vinyl albums on Amazon. Then check out the turntable I had been watching on bestbuy.com.

[samnsara]

2. I still have all my Vinyl from college in the 70s..all packed away

..ready for me to get a new cool way to play them.

[pnwmom]

3. Does she plan to teach her baby 4 million extra words by playing the radio and record player? n/t

[Skya Rhen]

5. Research: By the time these children are 5 years old, the poor ones will have heard 30 million fewer

words than their wealthy peers.

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Much of this disadvantage has been attributed to what researchers call the “word gap.” Higher-income parents spend nearly a half hour more per day engaged in direct, face-to-face, Goodnight Moon time with their children than low-income parents do, and by the time these children are 5 years old, the poor ones will have heard 30 million fewer words than their wealthy peers...

Because the word gap first appears during periods of critical neurological and cognitive development, its effects cannot be easily remedied by later interventions. Teachers, standards, technology, even those hallowed halls of ivy—none of this matters as much to a child’s educational and economic future than an informed and empowered parent.

Unfortunately, explained Ann O’Leary, Director of the Children & Families Program at Next Generation in a phone call, “there’s a lack of alignment among low-income parents regarding how much talking, singing, and reading to children really matters over a lifetime,” and research backs that up. One study found that low-income parents underestimate their power to influence their children’s cognitive development, sometimes by as much as 50 percent. Wealthy parents spend more time engaged in these activities because they have better access to information, and O’Leary argued that when parents understand the impact they have on their child’s cognitive development, they invest.


https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/10/american-kids-are-starving-for-words/381552/

[pnwmom]

10. I know. But the same researchers say that these words come in interactive CONVERSATIONS with adults

and in reading books, singing together, playing word games -- NOT radios, record players, and other passive forms of listening.

[Skya Rhen]

13. So perhaps the "passive forms" account for the 4 million words as opposed to the 30 million words.

[pnwmom]

20. No, they don't. All the research is about how active verbal interactions with a HUMAN help,

not just listening to radio or music.

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. That was from ONE flawed study

That started in 1982, and looked at just 42 families.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/01/615188051/lets-stop-talking-about-the-30-million-word-gap

Frankly, people pull that study out of their ass to justify punching the poor and the black.

[Kurt V.]

4. I'm not sure doubling down on a gaffe that has some ppl of color really pissed is wise.

[Skya Rhen]

6. Are you referring to me or Kasie?

[Kurt V.]

9. both

[Skya Rhen]

12. Well, I'm a person of color who is not pissed. Am I supposed to be pissed? I will defer to you.

[jcgoldie]

8. Yeah its a nice attempt at a redirect to try to make this about record players

That's clearly not the issue with that response.

[pnwmom]

11. Right. It's about a rambling, non-responsive answer to a question about the legacy of slavery

and something Biden said about it in the 70's -- that it wasn't our responsibility because it happened a long time ago.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. Lost amidst the hubbub over Biden's record player comment, is his tone deaf response to the question

Biden implied that Black families couldn't care for their children without help form social workers, and alluded to, in his incoherent rambling word salad, to a long discredited study about the number of words poor children hear versus middle class kids.

[Cracklin Charlie]

15. My millennial mom daughter plays vinyl records for her daughters.

She also plays a recorded lawn mower on her Spotify through her phone when the new baby gets fussy.

ps, Kasie...the recorded lawn mower works like a charm. Also, my favorite lullaby, “Lister to the Horses” by Raffi. I get sleepy just thinking of it.

[NBachers]

19. My parents used to run the vacuum cleaner outside my bedroom door to put me to sleep as a baby

I remember that the sucking sound of the vacuum would produce a yawning reflex in me. I would start yawning over and over and immediately fall asleep.

[Cha]

16. Sweet!

[SCVDem]

17. As long as Joe wasn't referring

to 78 rpm records.

[spike jones]

21. We played Bob Dylan albums to our babies, and all through their childhood.

One result of that was when we were sitting at the breakfast table and I asked my nine-year-old son the pass the cereal. As he handed the box to me, he said, “Dad you shouldn’t let other people get your Kix for you.”

Years later when my youngest son was a 16-year-old teenager, he said that his girlfriend was a Dylan fan and asked what would be a good CD to get for her birthday. Of course, I recommended Blonde On Blonde as you can never get tired listening to it. Later I asked if she liked it and she did, and he mentioned that although he did not know any of the song titles, he knew all the words to them.