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[theweaselking]

For every hour a day that babies 8 to 16 months old were shown such popular series as "Brainy Baby" or "Baby Einstein," they knew six to eight fewer words than other children, the study found.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*can't stop laughing, although feels a little bit bad for those babies whose parents were taken in, too*

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

I am not sure about the scientific validity of this. Did they have a randomized control group? If not, it could simply be that the babies had a poorer vocabulary because they inherited the stupidity of their parents.

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

When my youngest daughter was little (the other three were from my wife's previous marriages), my wife and I tried to avoid using "baby talk," and talked to her normally. It worked. She started talking in sentences early, and she's always had a good vocabulary. The idea of subjecting a baby to a video to teach him/her to talk is ridiculous.