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If you were duped into thinking that Baby Einstein videos were helping your baby's brain, you can now get your money back. Three years after Walt Disney Co. stopped claiming the videos were educational for children under 2, it has announced it is offering a refund to anyone who bought a Baby Einstein video in the last five years.
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My take on Baby Einstein:
http://ourannoyingworld.com/2009/11/13/baby-einstein/
I find it interesting that some of these parent bought those Baby Einstein vids thinking their kids were going to talk early and be such 'geniuses'. Obviously, they know NOTHING about the real Albert Einstein. First off, he didn't talk until he was 3 or 4 years old. He was a top student, to be sure, but he was not considered a genius as a child! That didn't happen until he was much older. Plus there are some who believe that Einstein didn't even formulate the theory of relativity. The people at the Tesla society claim that Einstein actually plagiarized it...or rather straight out STOLE it from his first wife, Mileva Maric! At any rate, parents need to spend TIME with the kids and not use the TV like an electronic babysitter. It doesn't matter what's on, too much TV is not good for kids. That's just plain common sense. If those parents honestly though their kids would be Harvard ready from watching some cheesy Disney made vids, then those parents are just plain ole S-T-U-P-I-D and need to go back to school themselves!
This is silly.
I bought a few of these videos for my kids, not because I thought they would turn them into "geniuses," but because they loved them. They smiled and giggled at the puppets and animals in the videos. And no, i didn't prop them in front of the TV all day long. But it was nice to be able to pop in a DVD once a day for 20 minutes and get dinner ready.
I don't recall the company ever claiming that these videos would make your child a "genius." And anyone who bought them with that expectation, well, that's just beyond silly. People should really know better than that.
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First Posted: 10-26-09 01:15 PM | Updated: 10-26-09 01:19 PM