Re: Baby Einstein question

[Guest guest]

As long as you don't overuse them I think they are fine. My dd loved

them. Part of the reason TV is bad for small children is the constant

change which is overstimulating. The Baby Einstein videos are

designed for small children so they are much slower paced and less

likely to over load them.

Mom to Connor & Ryleigh

>

> For Christmas some friends gave set of the Baby Einstien

> videos. is almost 4 months old. I have heard that TV is

> too much stimulation and is not good for those under 2. Are the Baby

> Einstein videos really ok for little ones??? One of our other friends

> has an 11 month old who loves the videos and so that is why these

> friends gave them to us. I am just worried to use them. Any

> thoughts about the videos and then how to handle my friends if we

> don't use them for a long time? Thanks!

[Guest guest]

Hi there

I'd watch them yourself and see what you think. I've taken a pretty

relaxed stance on TV for my own daughter who is 12 months now- she

watches the odd pre=schooler programme such as the Fimbles or

BooBah. My mother brought me up terribly strictly with TV, only one

programme a day, and that's when we knew we had one as they bought

one when I was about five or six and hid it in the cupboard for a

whole YEAR from us kids! I now watch more than anyone I know...

The AAP does not recommend TV for the under-twos because there is a

lack of research on what the effects might be of all that

stimulation, and one study did find a link between TV and

hyperactivity (the more TV, the more likely to be hyperactive), plus

obesity. But in these studies it is sooo hard to know whether this

is cause and effect- perhaps children who were more hyperactive as

babies with poor attention spans were plonked in front of the TV by

their poor parents who were finding it hard to cope. It doesn't take

a rocket-scientist to work out that letting kids sit in front of the

TV all day makes them larger, but then that isn't what you are

thinking of doing anyway.

I'd read the research and judge it yourself-plus think of people you

know and parent well around you (you probably know loads of kids who

as babies that watch the odd bit and who are neither hyperactive or

obese).

Also- your baby may not be that interested in the TV anyway- my

daughter wasn't at that age (two min, then she'd throw herself out

of any baby chair...) so it may not be the big deal you think it

will. Even now, she has a better concentration on other activities,

so she tends to watch the theme tune, then wander off to play

happily with her bricks for half an hour. Though I think this will

change as she becomes a toddler...

I wouldn't worry about your friends- thank them profusely for the

videos and say she loves them (don't you do that with all those

other pressies you don't really like?!) I received some very

politically incorrect videos from some Bulgarian friends who had

brought their favourite childhood cartoons from the 70's for my

daughter. I just thanked them for their very kind thought (which it

was) and made a mental note to dispose them later!

The point about getting her attention is a good one- she may, if

interested, be motivated to look in one direction which could help

with tort stretching. It all helps- but it won't be crucial, so if

you decide not, I'm sure that you'll find something equally

stimulating.

Hannah (mum to Lucia, London, UK)

Cranio grad

> >

> > For Christmas some friends gave set of the Baby

Einstien

> > videos. is almost 4 months old. I have heard that TV

is

> > too much stimulation and is not good for those under 2. Are the

Baby

> > Einstein videos really ok for little ones??? One of our other

friends

> > has an 11 month old who loves the videos and so that is why

these

> > friends gave them to us. I am just worried to use them. Any

> > thoughts about the videos and then how to handle my friends if

we

> > don't use them for a long time? Thanks!

[Guest guest]

I know this reply is very late, but I can't stress enough how much

LOVES Baby Einstein videos. He is 9 months old now, but has

been watching them since he was about 3 months. I hate cartoons, and

the ones that I felt were ok, just didn't have ANY interest

in. The Baby Einstein videos are unbelievable. They are so perfect.

sits and just stares it the TV. Sometimes I talk to him about

the video and he looks at me and smiles or laughs, and other times I

just leave him by himself and he lays there on his side or sitting up

watching them. OMG..if you haven't tried them already you have

to!!! :-)

Marcy and (9 months) in New Jersey

2 months in DOC band # 1 to correct mild assymetry

Now in Doc band #2 to correct Brachycephaly

>

> For Christmas some friends gave set of the Baby Einstien

> videos. is almost 4 months old. I have heard that TV is

> too much stimulation and is not good for those under 2. Are the

Baby

> Einstein videos really ok for little ones??? One of our other

friends

> has an 11 month old who loves the videos and so that is why these

> friends gave them to us. I am just worried to use them. Any

> thoughts about the videos and then how to handle my friends if we

> don't use them for a long time? Thanks!

[Guest guest]

My daughter also loves the Baby Einstein movies. She really

interacts with them as well. I think at your daughter's age they

don't recomend going over 1/2hr a day. So that would be about one

dvd a day.

Sandy Willow's Mom

Tort resolved

Cranio Germany Grad

www.geocities.com/samipa74/Willow_Lanette.html

> >

> > For Christmas some friends gave set of the Baby

Einstien

> > videos. is almost 4 months old. I have heard that TV

is

> > too much stimulation and is not good for those under 2. Are the

> Baby

> > Einstein videos really ok for little ones??? One of our other

> friends

> > has an 11 month old who loves the videos and so that is why

these

> > friends gave them to us. I am just worried to use them. Any

> > thoughts about the videos and then how to handle my friends if

we

> > don't use them for a long time? Thanks!