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Did you hear the news about Baby Einstein DVD’s? These popular DVD’s do NOT support language development in babies. In fact, when babies are put in front of screen media (TV, DVD’s, Videos) for as much as two hours a day, their language development is interrupted. There isn’t much language in Baby Einstein anyway, but even if there were, babies don’t absorb language that way. Babies need one-to-one, eye-to-eye communication from a warm-hearted adult who speaks lovingly to them. We stress this in our book, BABY READ-ALOUD BASICS. The author of this latest study, Dr. Dimitri Christakis, MD, was cited in our book for another study that linked ADD to frequent TV watching.

We know that most parents use the DVD’s so they can get dinner ready or just take a shower. I know how difficult it is for parents, especially when you have two or more under five years of age. Since I’ve watched my daughter-in-laws (both devoted, caring moms), I personally know the stresses that today’s mothers feel.

My personal feeling, after having watched a number of Baby Einstein DVD’s is that your child’s language will not be compromized by watching one 20 minute DVD four or five times a week so moms (or dads) can do something around the house. My four grandkids from my two son’s and daughter-in-law’s families are proof of this. The older ones were brought up with books from day one, never missing a day of read-alouds. Now they are the top readers in their classes in school, and read voraciously, independently for pleasure every day. My two and a half year old granddaughter gets read to as much as five to 10 times a day because she requests it. Her spoken vocabulary is phenomenal. Her baby sister, of course, has been read to since birth too.

I have to add here that, like a number of the examples we discuss in our book, my grandkid’s parents do not watch much TV. They don’t have time. In otherwords, their parents are great models of not being dependent on TV. The TV is just not on at night.

It’s so important for parents, who want their children to be successful at school, and want them to love reading and learning, to be models of the love of reading themselves. Do your kids see you enjoying a book?

I know that parents don’t have time to read. But somehow, you’ve heard of a good book, and you want to read it. You have it on the table next to the rocking chair, or where ever, and you can’t resist grabbing it and reading a paragraph or page here and there in between moments of chaos. You’ll find your first grader doing the same thing the minute she or he learns to read independently. You have shown them how. This is how good readers are created.

Welcome to Book Babies Blog

Did you hear the news about Baby Einstein DVD’s? These popular DVD’s do NOT support language development in babies. In fact, when babies are put in front of screen media (TV, DVD’s, Videos) for as much as two hours a day, their language development is interrupted. There isn’t much language in Baby Einstein anyway, but even if there were, babies don’t absorb language that way. Babies need one-to-one, eye-to-eye communication from a warm-hearted adult who speaks lovingly to them. We stress this in our book, BABY READ-ALOUD BASICS. The author of this latest study, Dr. Dimitri Christakis, MD, was cited in our book for another study that linked ADD (attention deficite disorder) to frequent TV watching.

We know that most parents use the DVD’s so they can get dinner ready or just take a shower. I know how difficult it is for parents, especially when you have two or more under five years of age. Since I’ve watched my daughters-in-law (both devoted, caring moms), I personally know the stresses that today’s mothers feel.

My personal feeling, after having watched a number of Baby Einstein DVD’s is that your child’s language will not be compromized by watching one 20 minute DVD four or five times a week so moms (or dads) can do something around the house. My four grandkids from my two son’s and daughters-in-law’s families are proof of this. The older ones were brought up with books from day one, never missing a day of read-alouds. Now they are the top readers in their classes in school, and read voraciously, independently for pleasure every day. My two and a half year old granddaughter gets read to as much as five to 10 times a day because she requests it. Her spoken vocabular is phenomenal. Her baby sister, of course, has been read to since birth too.

I have to add here that, like a number of the examples we discuss in our book, my grandkid’s parents do not watch much TV. They don’t have time. In otherwords, their parents are great models of not being dependent on TV. The TV is just not on at night.

It’s so important for parents, who want their children to be successful at school, and want them to love reading and learning, to be models of the love of reading themselves. Do your kids see you enjoying a book?

I know that busy, busy parents don’t have time to read. But somehow, you’ve heard of a good book, and you want to read it. You have it on the table next to the rocking chair, or where ever, and you can’t resist grabbing it and reading a paragraph or page here and there in between moments of chaos. You’ll find your first grader doing the same thing the minute they learn to read independently. You have shown them how. This is how good readers are created.