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Originally posted by SabrinaFair
Not a mama, but I've babysat a lot.
My longest-term babysitting charge, Walker, used to watch videos in the Baby Einstein series...and just LAUGH. That kid had an awesome sense of humour. The bears and monkeys and stuff cracked him up.
Other TV didn't really interest him much. I kept it on for noise a lot, just because the kid didn't talk and I missed hearing human voices. I'd have on CNN or whatever, and he'd continue to play with his toys.
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Yeah, our guy loves baby einstein. it cracks him up, and i think he has a thing for aspen and sierra clark now. we let him watch it from pretty early on, as a video baby myself (sesame street, mr. rogers and electric company were daily for me and i credit them for a lot) i was all about the motion, color, patterns and concepts in the einsteins.
i think little kids go for puppets before they go for cartoon animation. flat drawings just don't appeal as early in my experience with my own and other kids. although he's starting to get into cartoons that match his favorite books, like maisy and clifford, he still likes muppets and puppets best. we are trying to steer away from einstein now and get more into sesame street and things that teach higher concepts. we limit to around an hour day, and make sure that there is a lot of physical activity to balance out the sitting time. we talk about what we are watching to learn words and concepts like sharing and stuff.