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8.08.2007

Baby Einstein not so Einsteiny


These very successful videos for young learners has now been deemed as causing language delay.

"The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos."

TV has ALWAYS been a passive activity no matter what the content is. How can children or adults learn any real complete language this way?

Parents have been using the TV for the default baby sitter for years. Baby Einstein lessened the guilt up until now.

"Peek a boo anyone?"