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No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund
nytimes.com ^
| October 23, 2009
| TAMAR LEWIN
Posted on 10/24/2009 4:49:10 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Face it, folks. These things never had a chance of working.
Kids are chuckleheads - your included. Just unclench and enjoy the glorious mess that they are until they turn into teenagers and suddenly know way more than you ever did ;-)
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posted on
10/24/2009 4:54:39 AM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Parents who want their children to be Democrat United States Senators purchase and use “Baby Frankenstein.” But it’s only worked once so far.
To: mrs. a
Yikes - that should be “yours included.”
Now who’s the chucklehead?
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posted on
10/24/2009 4:56:51 AM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: mrs. a
Heh ...
I had to chuckle after reading your comment.
I prefer to look at kids 0 - 3 or 4 as acid heads. Certainly for the first year almost everything is brand new and, "Oh wow, man" worthy to them ... sights, sounds, smells, tastes, ... everything.
They are also absorbent little sponges, just sucking up and in everything they receive ... especially language.
The true chucklehead is the younger teenage boy ... 12 - 15 or 16 ... now THERE is a specimine of life-form that defies logic, reason and perhaps even definition.
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:03:30 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Berlin_Freeper
I was always amused by those parents who would pipe the music of Mozart into their baby’s room for hours on end in an effort to make him/her “smarter.” Not that the music of Mozart isn’t pleasant to listen to but but it’s just funny how people will superstitiously do things that have no basis in scientific fact just because they read about it in a magazine article somewhere - or saw it on Oprah.
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:03:49 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 9 days away from outliving Laura Branigan)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:09:40 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(God is great, and wine is good, and people are crazy.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
I’d never return the videos we own. My son loved them. I never had the expectation that he’d become a genius from watching them, either.
You have the option of choosing which language the show is in. I usually picked French or Spanish, and he learned quite a few words in those languages as a result. He’s 3 now and every once and a while, I’ll let him watch one. He gets nostalgic - if that’s possible for a 3 year old.
Any parent who expected their kid to get much of anything out of those videos needs their head examined.
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:16:57 AM PDT
by
coop71
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
To: Berlin_Freeper
“Baby Einstein” was just an ingenious way separate some over expectant parents from some of their money.
To: SamAdams76
I was always amused by those parents who would pipe the music of Mozart into their babys room for hours on end in an effort to make him/her smarter. Not that the music of Mozart isnt pleasant to listen to but but its just funny how people will superstitiously do things that have no basis in scientific fact just because they read about it in a magazine article somewhere - or saw it on Oprah.We played classical or jazz at times to our sons. Never hard rock or heavy metal. They seemed to turn out okay.
I wonder what little tykes turn out like if they are exposed to Ozzie Osbourne or some other heavy metal rock band for extended periods?
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:30:10 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Now try Baby O'bama!
30 minutes of blank tape...
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:43:14 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: raybbr
Hearing-impaired, probably. My family has a Spanish church band, and the little boys get confused when they hear Christian music in English ... but the teens still insist on listening to metal. I assume they’ll grow out of it eventually.
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posted on
10/24/2009 5:50:59 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(God is great, and wine is good, and people are crazy.)
To: raybbr
"I wonder what little tykes turn out like if they are exposed to Ozzie Osbourne "
Don't be sayin' bad stuff about Ozzy. Your touching on a personal soft spot!
hehe
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:13:14 AM PDT
by
FunkyZero
("It's not about duck hunting !")
To: Berlin_Freeper
Probably was a better influence than Deadwood DVD’s.
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:16:26 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
How about some Baby Limbaugh CDs and DVDs? Have to turn the kids away from early. Maybe even some prenatal version just so the kid isn’t warped by the obstetrician. :-)
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:34:29 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: knarf
The true chucklehead is the younger teenage boy ... 12 - 15 or 16 ... now THERE is a specimine of life-form that defies logic, reason and perhaps even definition. My 9 year old grand son is precocious, he's already there.
To: SamAdams76
I was always amused by those parents who would pipe the music of Mozart into their babys room for hours on end in an effort to make him/her smarter. Like sleeping with a book under your pillow to absorb what's in it.
To: Berlin_Freeper
With all the PC crap Disney puts out, someone should have put out a line of "Baby Kaczynski", "Baby Polanski", and "Baby Michael Jackson" T-shirts. /sarc>
Cheers!
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:51:08 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: raybbr
I wonder what little tykes turn out like if they are exposed to Ozzie Osbourne or some other heavy metal rock band for extended periods? Surf on over to DU for the answer.
Cheers!
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:52:42 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:59:06 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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