Parents may now get turned off by what they turn on

Everyone knows children absorb information like a sponge, but now parents have to be careful about having their children absorb information FROM a sponge…SpongeBob that is! A new University of Virginia study to be published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics, suggests preschoolers’ development of mental skills that are key to academic success are compromised after watching just nine minutes of the SpongeBob tv show. Read this before turning on the tv for the kiddies…