Searching through the Net for information about education for toddlers I’ve found that Disney had offered refunds last year to millions of parents who bought its Baby Einstein educational DVDs for toddlers, following claims they may do more harm than good. I didn’t know about about that/ Probably because I had not baby yet;-) However I’m absolutely agreed with the act of returning videos as well. And not only because certain studies have concluded they may actually harm development.
Susan McLain, of the Baby Einstein Company, a Disney subsidiary, said the willingness to offer refunds to unhappy customers showed the ‘strongest possible confidence’ in the product. But Dr Aric Sigman, a leading psychologist and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, told the Sunday Telegraph: ‘This is a really important, symbolic act by a multi-national company. ‘It shows what many of us have been saying for a long time, that the virtual life cannot beat real life when it comes to language acquisition in children. ‘There is a tremendous amount of money in convincing middle-class parents that virtual means of coaching their infants and toddlers to speak are vastly superior to Mother Nature. This action has finally put paid to that.’
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