Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is now an obsession with having smart kids,” Christakis said in a telephone interview yesterday. “I think we scientists have managed to convince people, rightly, that these early years are really important. But the problem is we’ve created a neurosis around optimizing them and that’s spawned industries that essentially now prey on people’s obsession and fear.
Even ‘smart TV’ harms baby brains, doctor says