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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NEW YORK, March 4 (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 ...

Wording and testimonials claiming educational benefits removed from packages. LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its “Baby Einstein” videos for toddlers in response to ...

We got a lot of letters yesterday like this one, from a mother in Texas: I am the mother of identical twin girls who are almost 11. When they were infants, I would sit them in their bouncy seats and ...

Toddlers get a kick out of giving adults a hard time. True to form, these wobbly-legged knowledge-sponges learn virtually nothing from best-selling DVDs that their parents believe will boost ...

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 ...

Recently, Disney announced that it would refund parents for Baby Einstein DVDs — you know, the ones aimed at the under-2 set and whose creator was praised and feted by Oprah and President George W.

Somehow, a generation raised on treacly, Muzak-playing "Baby Einstein" DVDs have not yet cured baldness, invented personal jetpacks, or unified the theories of quantum mechanics and special relativity ...