Relax About Baby Einstein

Seriously, are we really putting our kids in front of these DVDs to educate them? Is that the responsibility of a cartoon?
Not in my house.

I love these. I have most of the original ones that were made. My kids are now 4, 3, and 3 and they still enjoy them. They see toys that we own, they sing the songs, they call out the words before they are said, and most of all they have fun watching them.

I never put them on and wonder about a message they are sending to their impressionable little minds.

Like most SAHM's, I don't often use the TV as a babysitter ... but I have to sometimes. Regardless of what you idiots think who have never spent an entire day alone with your kids, there are times when I need to make a phone call without the presence of little ones. When children are young, they need assistance from a parent to read, do craft projects, draw, color, playing with toys, etc. Being self sufficient is a learned skill that requires a parent to be present ... not hovering but able to provide assistance and guidance when asked.

But all you people, who "work" and pawn your parenting responsibilities off on daycare providers, wouldn't know this (this last sentence will be the subject of a post another day).

These videos are harmless. It's the parents who sit their children in front of the TV for hours on end who are harming their children (and those who are choosing to "work" over parenting). But my guess is that these same people are doing other things that are just as harmful to their child's long term success.

TV is an easy target. Let parents be parents and stop trying to put us all on guilt trips.

TV is not causing children to preform poorly ... bad parenting is. It's like saying that video games are causing obesity. If sedentary activities are causing obesity, why then are we promoting reading?