Comments on: Baby Einstein: The Target of Stupid Claims about Kids & Educational TV

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:02:37 +0000

Another great article. My daughter was able to benefit from watching some educational DVD’s. She’s also in day care and gets a tremendous amount of social activity every day (her day care does not have tv’s) To me she gets the best of both worlds.

It irritates me to no end when I hear about companies that conveniently forget that dads these days are much more involved in the lives of their children.

By: morethananelectrician

morethananelectrician — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:26:00 +0000

There are many benefits to DVDs/TV and the social interaction between the child with mom, DAD and the other siblings. Each child is different and the parents seem to be puppets in these social experiments…evryone has an agenda to push on us.

Things were so easy (althought it didn’t seem like it at the time) when we had one. Now we have three…yikes.

Mass Chaos!

By: Lisa Damian

Lisa Damian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:19:52 +0000

I agree — the key word is “limited” amount of TV. My daughter learned more about letter sounds in just a few viewings of Leap Frog’s DVD “The Letter Factory” than she did in her first six months of preschool, but she gained numerous social skills from interacting with others in her preschool class. We can’t rely on any single tool, and parent involvement is certainly the most important thing, but I think it’s okay to let our kids be kids too, whether that means watching a little TV once in a while, playing outdoors and risking scraping a knee, or working out their own issues with siblings or other kids without constant parent intervention.

I like your note about the importance of Dads in parenting. I mean, what century are we living in anyway? Almost every father I know with young kids participates fully in the parenting process. My own husband carries the lion’s share in many ways, while juggling a full time job and numerous activities, and our girls are much better PEOPLE because of it. (Not to mention, I am a much saner woman because of his patience, care, sense of fun, and total involvement in every phase of our family life together.)