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Neither Baby Einstein nor Beethoven will make your baby smarter

I can understand why parents would be eager to jump on the Baby Einstein bandwagon. Babies, with their wide eyes and furrowed brows and innocent, innocent little fingers feel like innocence personified, like a blank slate awaiting paint. And as parents, we want that paint to be brilliant, vibrant, masterful.

It turns out though, that early learning tools won't make our babies smarter.

According to this recent report, efforts to build "bright babies" are doomed because they are built on "misinterpretations and misapplications of brain research." Baby Einstein will not turn your infant into a child prodigy, and force-feeding her Beethoven will probably not make her a musical genius.

Researchers stopped short of saying that baby-education tools such as Baby Einstein and Smart Baby make no difference in cerebral development, but they did say that there is no evidence that such tools make any kind of difference whatsoever.

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