A nation of Automatons

Call her wacky... but when our son was a baby, my wife used to actually do stuff with him. She took him to the park, to libraries, to museums. He got to root around in the flowerpots and find out what dirt really tasted like.

It didn't always work out - like the time he tried painting his own tongue... instead of the paper - but he was always engaged and in this particular case, hopefully learned a valuable lesson.

But parental involvement is so, well... old school.

Three-month-old babies are too little for solid food. They can't sit up by themselves and many can't sleep through the night. But 40 per cent of them are already watching television, according to a study published today.

Canadian babies will soon have more television choices — and at all hours of day and night. A U.S. company plans to launch a 24-hour cable channel for babies, BabyFirstTV, in Canada by the end of June.

Thank goodness for technology, huh?

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RELATED: Don't overlook the educational benefits

Hamas - the terrorist group with a majority in the Palestinian Authority - is using a Mickey-Mouse-like character on its television channel to indoctrinate small Arab children into hating Israel and the United States.

I can see it now... Buffy the Global Warming (polar) Bear.

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