Baby Einstein Videos are harmful for kids?
August 8, 2007 — telco | Posted in Health & Food. 4 Comments »Synopsis: The LATimes, Denver Post and others front a new study that says videos like Brainy Baby or Baby Einstein may actually have the opposite effect than parents expect when they sit their children in front of the television. For every hour that babies are exposed to the videos they understand fewer words than those ho don’t watch them at all.
March 23, 2009 at 4:24 am
Some, and probably most, DVDs that claim to be educational insult the intelligence of the child. There are excellent resources out there.
There is a DVD series that teaches babies to read and others for foreign language. In addition, there is also a music-teaching DVD for babies (called “Trebellina”) that teaches babies/toddlers/preschoolers to read music, pitch, and instrument names and sounds.
These challenge and train young minds!
July 7, 2009 at 8:08 pm
The point is that watching a video is very different from watching things happen in real life. The way videos are edited, meaning that images appear and disappear, trains minds to have short attention spans. The content of the video doesn’t matter. It can be the greatest content in the world- its simply harmful to make a baby watch them. Parents think their children love them- but actually the way a baby’s brain works they can’t look away- they are so drawn to the brightest motion in the room- even if they would rather NOT look at t, they are sort of “stuck” looking at it. Sounds cruel. Let your baby lok out a window, or listen to music, or teach them music and ABCs yourself!
July 24, 2010 at 6:59 am
We don’t have a TV but we have a lot of computers at home and I have shown my son (4 months) the CD rom from the Gentle Revolution series by Doman to help increase his knowledge and language ability. He is definitely not stuck and can look away, plus I think some of the words are too small for him to see properly so he seems to prefer it when I show the cards to him personally. However, I don’t want to give up on DVDs, CD roms because when we go to grandma’s place the first thing she does is turn on the TV so I’d rather he was watching something educational that some soap opera that she’s interested in and that would bore him silly. Once he learns to read I can give him books but for now I’d rather he watched something educational.
By the way, in one of Doman’s books he said more kids were learning to read at home without being taught because they saw big words on TV from advertisers.
March 16, 2011 at 8:16 am
I think this stuff is great, I work at a strip joint and I put my six kids in front of the television for a couple of hours and away I go!