NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Thinking of buying your toddler an "educational" DVD for the holidays, or gifting one to a friend's preschooler? If you're buying them for educational value, you might want ...

Toddlers get a kick out of giving adults a hard time. True to form, these wobbly-legged knowledge-sponges learn virtually nothing from best-selling DVDs that their parents believe will boost ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a U.S. study that focused on one product, the Baby Wordsworth from the ...

Some parents swear by them, but the latest data on educational DVDs for toddlers show they do little to help babies learn. A study of 96 1 to 2 years old found no evidence after six weeks that the ...

Nothing grabs the attention of nervous new parents and excited grandparents like a product they think can make their children smarter. The market for educational “baby videos” aimed at children as ...

ATLANTA, Jan. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study has demonstrated that children between the ages of 18 and 33 months were better able to identify a unique shape in a book after repeatedly ...

Overall, kids' educational games, including learning games for toddlers, have emerged as valuable tools for childhood ...

A new study suggests that some of the educational claims of infant-learning videos and DVDs may be exaggerated. Judy S. DeLoache, a researcher at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, ...

While The Baby Einstein Co does not make educational claims, it notes on its web page that the Baby Wordsworth DVD is a “playful introduction to words and sign language.” A study by researchers at the ...

NEW YORK, Mar 5 (bdnews24.com/Reuters Life!) - Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a US study that ...