Focus: Baby Einsteins DVD doesn't work at all?

I'm a young man, and young people should do something like partying, having fun, hanging out with mates, while I'm reading articles related to parenting. That is kind of odd I believe. But I am so interested that every time I stumble upon an article about kids and their well-beings, I'll instantly read through it bit by bit, unlike other articles which I usually skim through and see if it worths my time to read it. Maybe I'm just having such a potential to be a good father, or am I not?

So this one that I just read (3-year-old article by the way) was about debating the effectiveness of purchasing Baby Einstein videos where they advertised it will help boosting your little pumpkin's intellect, prepare them for sooner education, or outsmart your neighbour's kid. Since it was so well-packaged into a suite of merchandise, guilty parents who feared they aren't doing enough for their baby flocked to stores and buy them, hoping that by listening to those music and watching those videos will make their baby smarter and maybe become an Einstein in the future,

Parents! Give me your money NOW!

Well this study showed us actually by plonking your infant children in front of these videos may do more harm than good to them! They said, when they put them in front of baby DVDs and videos, they learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. Wow, shocker. Also this especially affect babies for those aged between 8 to 16 months old, where their language skills and verbalising abilities are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, who worked on this study with the research team at the University of Washington. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos."

So apparently the more you let your little babies to watch these videos from TV screen, the less they will learn and the more parents paying these disks from their precious, invulnerable wallet, those companies who made all these counter-intuitive materials will earn all the profits from these poor parents, who just want their babies to be a little bit smarter and brighter. Reality is brutal.

So what should the parents do? Well, that's easy! You can just simply spend more time interacting with your little ones, play with them, talk to them, have some fun times and more importantly, stop drilling your babies little brain with those useless DVDs. They learn everything from you, copying your acts, your lingo, just do your best to be a good influence and example. Your grandfather turned out great even without television, let alone flash cards and stuff like these, right?

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