So you think your baby is a genius because you feed him those Baby Einstein DVDs? Well, what you're really doing is rotting their brain! According to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics, every hour a day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants between 8 and 16 months old understood an average of six to eight fewer words than infants who didn't watch them.

The lead author of the study, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor of health services at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute says "the most important fact to come from this study is, there is no clear evidence of a benefit coming from baby DVDs and videos, and there is some suggestion of harm."

For toddlers ages 17 to 24 months, the baby DVDs/videos had no positive or negative effect on vocabulary. So basically, DVDs/videos have zero beneficial value according to this study. Bummer.

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