Thank you for putting together this extremely well written and researched post! You have articulated everything I have ever wanted to say about Ms. Rachel.
I would like to completely disagree. Watching miss Rachel has COMPLETELY helped my child. She watched for a long time and didn’t talk along with her. But then a switch flipped and all of a sudden my child was saying all the things with miss Rachel. I am so thankful for songs for Little’s.
We use screen time very sparingly (i.e. for a few minutes while I’m cooking if I can’t engage him in independent play at that moment and it isn’t something with which I can safely involve him; and never replacing real-life interaction), but when we do use it we choose Ms. Rachel. Not because I think my son learns from it directly (he may or may not), but because *my* listening to it- and interacting with it to the extent I’m able in the situation- helps me to learn and internalize the strategies she employs and use them more often and more effectively every day. So in that way, anecdotally, I do think it may be a better option that other “baby shows”!
Thank you for putting together this extremely well written and researched post! You have articulated everything I have ever wanted to say about Ms. Rachel.
I would like to completely disagree. Watching miss Rachel has COMPLETELY helped my child. She watched for a long time and didn’t talk along with her. But then a switch flipped and all of a sudden my child was saying all the things with miss Rachel. I am so thankful for songs for Little’s.
Thanks for sharing this! Super informative!
We use screen time very sparingly (i.e. for a few minutes while I’m cooking if I can’t engage him in independent play at that moment and it isn’t something with which I can safely involve him; and never replacing real-life interaction), but when we do use it we choose Ms. Rachel. Not because I think my son learns from it directly (he may or may not), but because *my* listening to it- and interacting with it to the extent I’m able in the situation- helps me to learn and internalize the strategies she employs and use them more often and more effectively every day. So in that way, anecdotally, I do think it may be a better option that other “baby shows”!
Is there a printer friendly version of this? I’m a speech-language pathologist and I’d love to share it with families that I work with.