Thanks for the link. I understand the push with flash cards. But aren't a lot of kids "hot housed" now before that stage with Baby Einstein. I mean they know their instruments by 14 months because of Baby Einstein orchestra. When we were in Toronto, we went to the zoo a lot because it was easy, (it opened at 9 am) and we really enjoyed it, but at a year and a half, she knew the difference and names of 60 or 70 animals. It wasn't intentional. So isn't lifestyle creating hot housed kids?
And what about all those things that increase IQ ten points? Breast feeding, DHA, etc, etc. And then one year of music lessons increases IQ 8 points in older kids.
And China is supposedly taking hot housing to a whole new level. I saw a news segment on a preschool program. 10 million kids in those programs.
I think it is getting harder to define what is nature and nurture for brain development sometimes.
Ren
