Talk about scare-mongering:
"She says that 90% of nursery workers are worried that speech difficulties among pre-schoolers are increasing. "Lots of young children start school only knowing a few words and aren't able to construct sentences," she says. This, she warns darkly, can lead to behavioural problems, exam failure, delinquency, perhaps even prison."
(That's from Liz Attenborough of the Talk to your child campaign)
You heard it here first folks, put your baby in a forward facing buggy and you'll be visiting them in prison in 20 years
Then there's this:
"If you're being pushed down the street and you've got big things looming in front of you, that makes you a little anxious. You start to look uncomfortable, or maybe whimper. Does your parent notice and come around and say, 'Honey, it's OK'? Or are you left to cope with that stress on your own and do you do that quite a lot during the week?"
Of course I'll come round and see if my baby's ok if he's whimpering!! Methinks the issue here is not the buggy but the parent if they don't attend to their child. Why are people so bloody silly?
That whole article is designed to make parents feel guilty, the irony being that most parents who will be concerned enough to feel guilty are probably already interacting with their kids. The parents who are ignoring their kids are very unlikely to be reading/interested in this research.
walks away from the computer before she rants any more