Advocacy Group Targets Baby Einstein

Adweek ^ | May 01, 2006 | Wendy Melillo

[sully777]

The consumer group in January had teamed up with the Center for Science in the Public Interest to announce their intention to sue Kellogg and Viacom for marketing unhealthful food to children.

[sully777]

[sully777]

Center for [Junk] Science [Not] In the Public Interest was the advocacy group that said hot buttered popcorn at theatres as well as chinese and mexican food were all dangerous.

[sully777]

Of course, putting cartoons to classical music is not a new invention. I suppose watching Bugs Bunny made me a genius /sarc

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Rabbit of Seville

Rhapsody-Rabbit

[kpbruinfan]

It's a Boston-based organization from the People's Republic of Taxachusetts. That's all that needs to be said. Having lived there for the first 35 years of my life and then, by God's grace, being able to move away, I suppose I'm an expert on the terrible place it's turned into.

[arasina]

Those were the greatest, weren't they? Classic & Classical Bugs Bunny!

[sully777]

I thought this would be interesting for discussion.

[durasell]

Hucksters exploiting the fear and laziness of parents...not much more to say.

[Thinkin' Gal]

"Parents need honest information," said Susan Linn, a co-founder of the group. "They have a right to know that baby videos aren't really educational and may even be detrimental to their babies' development. Just because the marketing and media industries want to lure babies and toddlers to screens doesn't mean that Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby can mislead parents about the benefits of their products."

Hmmm, and not a word about the ubiquitous PBS behemoth, Big Bird.

[sully777]

Rhapsody Rabbit, Rabbit of Seville, and What's Opera Doc? are three best cartoons set to music

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Elmer:Oh Bwoom Hiwda yaw so wuvwee
Bugs:Yes, I know, I can't help it.

[mother22wife21]

mark

[6SJ7]

Elmer:Oh Bwoom Hiwda yaw so wuvwee

LOL! Now that was comic genius. Who could imagine one could make Wagner funny.

[Miss Marple]

"Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbit..."

[ClaireSolt]

There is probably a very high correlation between children who grow up in homes that value education enough to buy such products and educational achievement.

[mother22wife21]

Thanks for posting this. In our homeschooling family we play classical music while our daughter studies, reads or works on projects and she chooses to listen to it in her free time. LOL she has her favorites, and the ones she dislikes intensely. She is 6.
Our son loves his Baby Einstein DVD's. He loves the baby Einstein puppets and all of the antics they get into. I don't expect his IQ to go up because he watches them. He has a good time laughing and dancing to them.
In all things moderation, we don't use them as a baby sitter nor as a way to have a "brainy baby".

[Uddercha0s]

I thought the 3 Stooges were much better things to tube-sit your kids with... Look what it has done for me! :p

[mother22wife21]

Good Point.

[cricket]

Please send these people on a mission somewhere. . .else.

[cricket]

p.s.. . . what kids really need is a 'Liberal-free' childhood.

(So maybe we need a united 'counter' organization to tackle that one. . .and this one and so on and on. . .or go 'one for one'. . .whatever it takes. . .)

[cricket]

Hucksters exploiting the fear and laziness of parents...not much more to say.

. . .and you are, of course, referencing here, The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Consumer groups et al. . .right?