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The Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses.

They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect.

“We see it as an acknowledgment by the leading baby video company that baby videos are not educational, and we hope other baby media companies will follow suit by offering refunds,” said Susan Linn, director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which has been pushing the issue for years.

No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund - NYTimes.com

Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (via FrancisVachon)

Something about this video is hilarious and also inspiring, I love how the baby just rolls all around the room playing with whatever is in front of him, even if it doesn’t appear to be a toy.

I am going to have to retry rolling on the ground and playing with blocks some day soon. Maybe I will film myself in a timelapse. Hahaha.

According to a new study, babies who sat in strollers that faced their parents during their daily walks had twice as many conversations, laughed ten times as much, and suffered less stress than babies who were in the more common, front-facing models. The researchers studied 2,722 infants and found that kids who faced their parents had lower heart rates and fell asleep twice as easily as babies who faced forward. So along with generating laughter and baby talk, a face-time stroller will be far more likely to bring you that sweetest of sounds: the snore of your sleeping, soon-to-be-smarter offspring.
The Frontal Cortex : Strollers and Talking