Baby Einstein DVDs Don't Work

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Baby Einstein DVDs Don't Work

August 13, 2007 | ISSUE 43•33

A research team at the University of Washington has determined that babies watching television for an hour a day learned less vocabulary than babies that watched no television. What do you think?

True, but they develop witty comebacks and zingers a lot earlier.

Rick Klein
Golf Pro
I'm happy to teach my baby personally, but are these researchers aware that everything I know also comes from TV?

Cynthia Haggarty
Mail Sorter
This is great news. Finally a proven method to get my baby to shut the hell up.

Paul Lamphert
Systems Analyst

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