Question by im serious: Dose your or did your baby watch Baby Einstein videos?
What do you think?
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Answer by sharonsmineonly
they are rediculous
the age they are geared for shouldnt be watching tv
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They have watched a few. I think they are very good to enforce what you have already taught your child, but face to face learning is much better and helps vocal skills.
yes, and she loved it! she laughed along, and loved looking at the animals and all the colors.
Nope.
They’re actually being shown to CAUSE language delays, not help improve language skills.
Babies learn so much more through day-to-day interactions with you and the world around them. Parking them in front of the TV is at best a distraction, at worst a language-delay-causing risk.
as long as you don’t put your baby in front of a television and leave it there as a sitter, there’s nothing wrong with that kind of entertainment…just be sure it’s not more than 5-10 minutes at a time…their attention span isn’t much more than that and a diversified plan for entertainment is the best way to teach kids rather than to plant them and let a television do it for you…plus you get the benefit of praising them when they learn something new when you teach them yourself…
i have played one on occasion in the background, but it was more for the music than anything. my son liked to listen and “dance” but did not actively sit and watch it.
No, our boys have never watched any television or movies.
The AAP recommends no television at all for children under the age of two AND there was a study I just read (From the University of Washington) that concluded for every hour of TV a day a child under 3 watches it increases the likely hood they will develop ADHD by the age of 7 by 10%
Personally, I think TV is a waste of time. There are so many other ways to expose my boys to learning opportunities, the library, childrens museums, trips to the zoo, playgroups, music, art projects, etc.
My daughter watched Baby Beethoven every morning while I got ready for work from about 4 months old until about 9 months old. I became a SAHM then and my son didn’t watch them too much.
My dad called to tell me about that study that showed it decreased vocabulary and we almost died laughing. Let’s just say if it does, I’m glad since she hasn’t stopped talking since she was about 10 months old – EVER.
On the subject of TV, I think it gets a bad rap, personally. My daughter taught herself Spanish from Dora (Dora got her interested in it). She knows all her animals and whether they are crustacean, mammal, insect, reptile, bird or amphibian. (Discovery channel). She’s 4 years old.
I praise all moms that have the inclination and energy to deal with their kids all day long without TV, but for the rest of us, as long as you are selective of what you watch (no advertisements), I think it’s fine.
BTW, the study that said TV causes ADHD admitted that it was the advertisements (going from concentration on the movie/show to a bunch of 30 second clips) that contributed to the ADHD.
Yes, my son has watched them. Only one a day & only when I absolutely had to get some chores done. They don’t make your baby a genius (as far as I know), but they make it easier for moms to justify T.V. at that age. The music is pleasant & I don’t judge anyone who lets their baby watch them….there are a lot worse things.
My son never watched them, but he watches sesame street videos sometimes…i heard briefly the debate going on with baby einstein, but i didnt not have him watch them because i thought they were bad, but i like to watch any videos with him, and i cant stand baby einstein myself. At least with sesame street i know some of the songs (rubber ducky, etc) and we can sing and dance to them. Other than that i dont know what the problem is with TV, everyone watches it, and those parents who are preaching they dont let their kids watch tv, i bet as they are on the computer their kids are watching it. Stop trying to be all high and mighty! All kids watch it, just pick the shows right, and nothing in excess and theyll be fine.
My son never cared about them. He does, however, love the “Your Baby Can Read” series of videos. I don’t know about reading at that age, but they have helped his vocabulary.
We watched them with our first, but I’m not sure we’ll do so with our second (who is now 3 months old). Our first liked them all right, but in the last analysis I didn’t like them and I don’t think they taught him much. I could be wrong, though; he did start learning to read at age 22 months…but that was surely more the doing of “Your Baby Can Read” and other methods as “Baby Einstein.”
As to the University of Washington studies, they don’t prove what they are purported to prove. They did not home in on any particular products, and used a small sample size. A more recent study, using a much larger sample size, found no relationship whatsoever between academic attainment and early exposure to video. For a relevant discussion, see my book-length essay, free to download at http://www.larrysanger.org/reading.html, pp. 73-76 (“The too-much-video, too-early objection”).
Yes but they didn’t like them. My children are 1,2, and 3. When we sit down to watch a video they prefer the Brainy Baby series.
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