Baby Einstein Videos 'Like Crack for Babies', but Kids Don't Learn From Them

These programs are made by people that are making money off of new parents who already see their children as special. That's normal. I've raised three gifted children and you can tell by the time they are one or two if they have high I.Q's. You are either born with it or you aren't. As for the sign language, all children who are exposed to it will pick it up. It's a language, after all, and children who are deaf or who have deaf parents will pick it up just like any other form of communication. My daughter's teachers were talking to me about putting her in college when she was 9. I turned it down. I read to my children, they watched Seseme Street and I had a large chalkboard in my kitchen. High intelligence is good but without common sense it's useless.

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Joyce, I never said that these programs aren't beneficial. I just said that they won't make a genius if one isn't born. Unless, that village shares your values, you might want to be careful with that. While my kids were in school I butted heads with their teachers many times. There are also very many ways to be gifted. Whatever a child does well should be praised.

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My mother taught my niece her colors, with M & M's. She got one, when she told my mother what color was in her hand.

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what's wrong with watching the einstein videos simply because kids enjoy them...i have know idea if my kids learned anything from them...they liked them. music, colors, pretty pictures...all good. most kids have some tv time during the day...nothing wrong with popping in an einstein video.

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You don't plop your child down in front of these videos and go off somewhere! You need to be there interacting with them. My daughter also bought the puppets, and my grandsons loved them. They had incredible vocabularies very early and now, even at ages 3 and 4, they are well beyond their age group in vocabulary and other abilities. I think I can speak to the issue as I was a teacher of gifted students for 20 years and most of my first graders did not have vocabularies like this.

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As I sit here thinking about how I should Reply to this crude aligation about our beloved Baby Einstein Videos are 'Like Crack for Babies' & that Kids Do not Learn From Them. I have decided to say just what I know about My past experience's of crack, what I have read of Albert Einstein & what I have seen in the raising of my only child a 3yr old who was raised watching those so called baby crack Videos!

The first I would like to point out is that Albert Einstein was a wonderful student & smart as a whip when it came to his love; Mathmatics period.

Second the videos are in no such way anything like crack, anyone who believes that statement knows nothing of crack and the terrible addiction that it is. I hope that everyone reading this can one day some how understand better about Crack Cocain and the hold that it can have on the addicts that it consumes. Like a plauge the epidemic is no laugh at situation in this great country of ours nor to be made light of like in this title givin by Honey Berk who decribes her reasoning for it by pointing the blam on someones mother.

My third point would be that my three year old excels far past any childs vocabulary, She also has better reasoning & understanding of general life & of the truths this world of ours trys to shelter children from; my self included. My Daughter has watched every video out of the Baby Einstien collection from the moment she came home from the hospital until present. True I did breast feed and we all know that mothers milk is the best brain food we can ever give or child(ren) & there is no substitue for this. However my daughter could read & say every word or photo on any flash card everytime since she was two. Plus one little thing of the utmost importance my Daughters first word was APPLE not MaMa or DaDa but APPLE guess that video of Farming fields and sorting apples did not do anything for her at all; even if she was clear as a bell when she said it over & over again at ten months old or how she was talking in sentences at twelve Months. Please everyone needs to re-evaluate these so called thruths & aligations no matter if they agree with this or not....

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I remember buying the entire collection for my son when he was much younger, and he loved them. I do have to say though that my son is the very smart child he is today because we never used baby talk with him, we have always included him in all family activities, and we have tried to expose him to many different types of activites as we could. At the age of six my son has been to concerts, aquariums, zoo's, educational exhibits, dinner's with our adult friends, and events at our local performing arts venue. Our son's teacher is very impressed with him, and has encouraged us to start him on the track for advanced courses at his school. If you want to have a smart child you as the parent have to work hard at it. Don't rely on the tv to do that for you.

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When I introduced my grandson to the baby Einstein and the Brainy baby DVD's I didn't expect to have a conversation with him right away about what he saw ..all I wanted was to open up his mind to the world and hopefully start him going in the right direction. Over time he learned and repeated what he saw on his own..that told me that those DVD's had a positive effect. Can't speak for all children ...but, if you start these tapes when they are young you have a better chance of success. RC

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My children learned all learned a little ASL from Baby E. They also learn about colors, shapes, art and music. The key is to watch it with them and interact along with the DVD. Baby E even expains this before you watch them. Get a grip people. I highly recommend Baby E.

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