The market for baby-brain DVDs — titles like “Baby Einstein,” “Brainy Baby” and others that make up what’s been called the Baby Genius Edutainment Complex — is huge: striving parents spend hundreds of ...

Also, before my daughter was born, I made an extensive study of Baby Einstein and other supposedly enriching media for infants as part of a cover story for our Japanese edition. The story isn't online ...

Brain booster or digital baby sitter? Researchers and consumer advocates have long criticized producers of educational baby toys and DVDs for overstating their products’ value. And now The Baby ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fueling recent criticism of educational DVDs for toddlers, a new study finds that kids do not improve language skills after viewing one such product, the Baby Wordsworth ...

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Baby Einstein has changed language promoting some baby DVDs on its Web site, a move critics hailed as a victory in their effort to stop what they say are false claims that the videos are educational.

Four years, one lawsuit and relentless pestering after a headline-grabbing study slammed their iconic Baby Einstein videos as harmful, Bill Clark and Julie Aigner-Clark have forced the University of ...

The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its "Baby Einstein" videos for toddlers in response to challenges about the legitimacy of its educational claims. By The Associated Press The Walt ...

Disney is offering refunds to millions of parents who bought its Baby Einstein educational DVDs for toddlers, following claims they may do more harm than good. The range of DVDs cost about £18 each ...

We haven't because after a fit of housecleaning and culling through old toys and clothes last week, my husband threw ours away just before the Disney-owned Baby Einstein company announced the deal.

The Disney company, which owns ABC7 and the Baby Einstein series of videos is offering $15.99 for each DVD that parents send in. This is to settle a threatened lawsuit saying the DVD's showing images ...

Parents who buy educational DVDs to give their toddlers a head start may be doing more harm than good. A study of almost 100 boys and girls aged between one and two found that regularly watching a DVD ...