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+Infancy | October 20, 2011

Should Your 2-Year-Old Be Using an iPad?

By Sonia van Gilder Cooke

From “Baby Touch: Peekaboo” to “Moo, Baa, La La La!,” iPad apps for babies are flooding the market. Developers say the apps are educational, and busy parents know that a digital babysitter can buy them a few minutes of valuable time. But is the iPad a healthy thing for young kids?

+Quotes | July 1, 2011

“I never doubted what we made was really good.”

JULIE AIGNER-CLARK, co-creator, with her husband Bill Clark, of the iconic series of “Baby Einstein” educational videos for toddlers. In 2007, a widely publicized study by University of Washington researchers found that the videos did not help babies learn and were even associated with deficits in language skills. By 2009, Disney Co., which had bought [...]

+Childhood | September 7, 2010

‘Like Crack for Babies’: Kids Love Baby Einstein, But They Don’t Learn From It

By Maia Szalavitz
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When scientific studies first began suggesting that “Baby Einstein” videos might make children more like Einstein himself — as a child, he was taciturn and not especially verbal — rather than creating literary prodigies, proponents of the videos countered that the methods used in said studies couldn’t really prove that the videos themselves were the [...]

+Psychology | October 26, 2009

Baby Einstein Refund: Kids Too Much Like Real Baby Einstein

By Maia Szalavitz

Disney’s recently announced decision to offer a refund to parents who purchased its popular “Baby Einstein” videos vindicates researchers who had been attacked by the company. Their study, published in the prestigious journal Pediatrics, showed that each daily hour of viewing of these kinds of “educational” videos by children aged 8-16 months was associated with [...]