Bad news for parents who think that plopping your baby in front of a TV will somehow develop their intellect — The New York Times reports that the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for "all those Baby Einstein videos that didn’t make children into geniuses."
The announcement is vindication for parents and child development experts who have long contended that the videos "featuring music, puppets and bright colors" are of no educational value whatsoever, a position that counters the producers and distributors’ earliest claims.
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