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American Voices

Monday, August 13, 2007

Baby Einstein DVDs Don't Work

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?

Old Man

Rick Klein,
Golf Pro
"True, but they develop witty comebacks and zingers a lot earlier."

Old Woman

Cynthia Haggarty,
Mail Sorter
"I'm happy to teach my baby personally, but are these researchers aware that everything I know also comes from TV?"

Young Man

Paul Lamphert,
Systems Analyst
"This is great news. Finally a proven method to get my baby to shut the hell up."

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