Baby Einstein DVDs Don't Work

American Voices • Entertainment • ISSUE 43•33 • Aug 13, 2007

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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