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Disney's Sorry It Couldn't Make Your Kid Smarter Blame Disney for your kid's poor test scores. The giant entertainment conglomerate Friday said it will offer refunds on its "Baby Einstein" serious of videos, conceding in a lawsuit that the video exercises didn't increase infants' intelligence despite claims it would. Lawyers threatened Disney last year that it would sue unless Disney offered a full refund -- $15.99 per video -- to customers who wished to cash in on their "Baby Einstein" stash, the New York Times reported Friday. Customers can get a discount coupon, exchange the video for a different title,...

Parent alert: 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. Baby Einstein,...

WASHINGTON The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the advertising for Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby videos for infants and toddlers is false and deceptive because the products are promoted as educational, the Boston-based consumer advocacy group said. The group wants the FTC to prohibit any claims that say the products will enhance a baby's learning and development, and it is asking that all ads, packaging and Web sites for the products carry the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation which says there should be no screen time for children under...

For those of you who love/hate the Baby Einstein series of toys, here is a Bush bashing version http://www.babybushtoys.com/ Its pretty funny, and I am a conservative who loves to laugh at himself, as well as those he supports, at times. It is rather telling, this obsession with his supposed lack of intellect. Reveals something of their circle-jerk behavior.