Dr. Dimitri Christakis did a study on babies who watch the Baby Einstein videos and he came to this conclusion: I would rather babies watch 'American Idol' than these videos.
He
says that children in the 8 - 16 month range who watched these videos
instead of being read to knew about eight less words than the children
who were read to.
Sure, but what about those kids who watched
the videos AND were read to? Did you quiz you sample children on
Beethoven symphonies or works by Monet? Can they count to five? Did
their parents get any laundry done? Where are those statistics?
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