Parents who have eagerly sat their infants in front of TVs playing DVDs and TV shows designed to boost their intelligence may want to rethink their plans, according to a recent study published in the ...

Nothing grabs the attention of nervous new parents and excited grandparents like a product they think can make their children smarter. The market for educational “baby videos” aimed at children as ...

Brain booster or digital baby sitter? Researchers and consumer advocates have long criticized producers of educational baby toys and DVDs for overstating their products’ value. And now The Baby ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Another day, another study showing that "educational" programming for babies isn't. The latest research, which came out ...

Educational DVDs may hinder rather than help a young child’s learning. Infants who watch DVDs such as Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein know fewer words than those who do not watch such programmes, a new ...

Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as "Baby ...

Can DVDs really boost your baby’s language and speech development? We all want our children to get the best start in life and for some parents that means learning how to read from an early age.

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that the videos marketed by Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby and other producers of videos for infants may not make babies smarter and could even have ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a U.S. study that focused on one product, the Baby Wordsworth from the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fueling recent criticism of educational DVDs for toddlers, a new study finds that kids do not improve language skills after viewing one such product, the Baby Wordsworth ...

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