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