DVD Viewing Can Help Babies Learn

How is it that so many people who have an all or none view on baby DVDs? The content varies so greatly between the various baby DVDs that this approach is a logical approach. If one looks at the various babies, it is easy to see that most are passive, entertainment-based DVDs designed to occupy the baby in a fun way, while parents busy. I have one child, researcher and teacher for over 15 years now and I would not suggest showing these types of videos for babies and toddlers. For a DVD to be helpful for babies and toddlers, all of the following conditions are met: 1) The interactive DVD's should be - not passive. 2) The DVDs should be multi-sensory. In other words, see and hear what the baby should go together logically. In addition, babies and toddlers are encouraged to do physical words and actions on what they see and hear. This multi-sensory approach is very important, because babies and toddlers tens of thousands of new formation of synapses per seconds. Many of these new connections to the visual cortex of the auditory cortex and the somatosensory cortex, as the baby's doing an action. Many of the baby DVDs actually show infants visual images while playing sounds (mostly classical music) that do not go with those images. This means that new synapses would not go together in a logical manner. 3) The DVDs should teach the children something of lasting value. To many of the babies watching videos, you will see that very little content of value for the next one baby entertainment value. 4) The DVDs should be designed for babies to learn language skills. The videos in the recent study have very little spoken or written language. There are only a few dozen words spoken in most of those videos compared to hundreds or even thousands of words in a different babies. As I child development at Indiana University graduate, my first daughter was just a baby. I did not like one of the video options that were available at that time, because they are too passive and not enough language skills to learn, so I created a video that would teach her open, spoken and written language, while she was the babysitter home. The Your Baby Can Read! videos are designed to be interactive, multi-sensory, and language-rich education - all these factors could be more of a child to increase vocabulary. In the recent study was released, it said that babies less words learned watching Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein videos, the study was actually a telephone survey for both television viewing and the number of words the child knew. I'm not surprised that babies who only watched entertainment videos would score lower on verbal scores. These videos have very few spoken words, so they look less would give the children opportunities for learning vocabulary compared to children who watch more videos or doing language learning other activities besides watching TV. It is also important to realize that this study was not a causal link due to the way the show was performed. It appears not watch those videos because of their vocabulary to be lower. A considerable body of research shows that babies and toddlers have a natural window of opportunity for learning language. While most of the other baby videos have little language in them, our Your Baby Can Read! DVD's are really designed for babies and toddlers the written, oral teaching, and receptive language. * Studies show the earlier the child is taught to read, the better the child reads. * Studies show that the older the child is taught to read the more likely the child will actually read. * The gap between the start of the readers and the readers later tends to increase over time, where the long-term effects of early reading. * Lower IQ children tend to maximize the benefits of learning to read early. * We have many thousands of parents who have written us notes telling us how well their babies and toddlers are reading after viewing our videos. Baby DVDs can be used as a great teaching tool - especially if the parents watch the DVDs with their babies and interact with their babies properly.