Anyone keep the news on during the day for baby to hear lots of language?

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luckylucy:
A recent post discussed how a baby needs to hear about 20,000 words a day to start talking and I guess more words to talk early.

May times during the day I have to work on the computer and can't talk around my daughter so she there are many hours where she is just playing in the house and not hearing any language.  My husband is not home during the day so I doubt she is hearing 20,000 words.

I thought of maybe putting the news on TV, like MSNBC which runs a constant cycle of sophisticated political and financial talk that have big human faces facing forward and speaking grammatically correct (mostly).

I know studies say that kids who watch TV develop slower than those who don't because they are just sitting there not interacting and just being entertained.  But my daughter doesn't actually she watch the TV (she's only 13 months), it's just background noise.

For that matter I would love to find a French TV station and keep that on all day for her to hear, but all I can find is Spanish.  I know that many people who come to the US say that they learned English quickly by watching a lot of TV.

What do you all think of this concept?

Thanks,
Chrissy

nhockaday:
It sounds good, but I would be cautious of having a news program on in the background. The news is very grim. It's always talking about all the evil in the world, and I wouldn't want my child hearing about it.

luckylucy:
Yes, I know, that was my concern with the news.  I guess I mostly interested in what everyone thought of the concept in general.   

Ideally, I would like to keep a station on that talked about creative and fun stuff.  Like today I had one of the cooking channels on (Rachel Ray).   But like I said the best for us would be a French channel. 

 

nhockaday:
I know there are some satellite providers that offer foreign channels. I'm sure it's expensive, but maybe you could call around.

saniso:
i have read in one of the books :,Baby brain games(typo) that language acquisition will improve when it is directed to the baby versus just hearing adults talking. But again they need to hear others talking to gain a perspective of language! For me, I think leaving the TV on for more than a specified time will not work as I get very distracted myself and seem to be unorganized (I may have Adult ADD, I am not sure) .

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