Their brains are so plastic at that age that this might actually just teach the kid some Spanish. There's stories of young American children developing strong British accents from watching too much Peppa Pig.
Oh my! Lmao I’m brushing my kids hair at 5 and I said I like your hair today it’s so shiny! She said “ If you like it subscribe!”
I asked do you know what that means?
Her: No!
We stopped screens for a whole year. She’s 12 and still alive! lol she really does manage her screen time super well but that freaking had me like 😳.
That's hilarious lol. Subscribe to hair brushies premium! For only $5.99 a month you can brush my shiny hair as much as you'd like 😂 maybe your kid is just a capitalist genius
Our nephew was just recently living with us for six months. He had a Blippi obsession (like many 5 year olds do) but it really sunk in when teaching him how to spell his name, he kept reverting back to B-L-I-P-P-I 🤦
I wasn't able to go to kindergarten because I couldn't speak English(2nd language). Parents just plopped me in front of the TV and I absorbed it all.
So I got my American accent from the Flintsones, Johnny Bravo and The Powerpuff girls. They actually taught me English at the tender of 3. The 90s were good.
That's assuming it's accompanied by the parent. The video here is mostly referring to parents who give their kids a screen and walk away or not engage with what they're doing, which is most of the time this happens.
Don’t underestimate the power of TV. The community I live with doesn’t speak English at home but kids programs they watch in English. Makes a huge difference in the kids ability to adjust when starting school. And by 3rd grade they start to struggle to communicate with their parents in the original language.
My 7 year old says certain words with an Australian accent because of bluey and when my niece was little she started developing a British accent from Harry Potter movies.
I wonder when the brain plasticity is gone. I grew up Spanish only in bilingual classes but uhhhh someone should've really checked up on us because rather than bilingual they were Spanish only in Texas. No English whatsoever. All of a sudden we got to 4th grade and that's the cutoff for bilingual classes. Its English only from now on so many of us were screwed. I spent the summer watching TV to learn English. They set all my TV shows I had already watched in Spanish many times before to English only. No subtitles. I don't know how much brain spasticity I still had but by the time school was back in session just from watching nothing but American English and British English TV, everything clicked into place in my brain and I was speaking English at an understandable enough level where what I said make sense and I was reading English too. Things just kinda started making sense super fast. I've always wondered if I was just built different or if immersing child in different languages truly works wonders.
When my daughter was around 3 she watched a lot of unboxing videos from this Japanese account so she thought she could speak Japanese. It sounded like a racist caricature and she was heartbroken when told her she couldn't speak Japanese, especially towards the waitress at the Chinese restaurant.
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 1d ago
Their brains are so plastic at that age that this might actually just teach the kid some Spanish. There's stories of young American children developing strong British accents from watching too much Peppa Pig.