Baby Einsteins Videos Do Harm Than Good
You may have heard about the toys and especially videos made and advertised as language and brain development enhancer for your infants. The recent studies show those will only do harm than good!
Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. “The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew,” says Christakis. “These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos.”
Source / Read More at: Time.com
