Baby Enrichment
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:42:00 GMT
Boy, this is an interesting story, Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, has an audio presentation on Extreme Parenting
“In America’s high-paced, strive-for-success-go-for-the-gold-meritocracy, it’s never too soon to start jockeying for advantage. That explains in part a booming industry that has many parents convinced that Mozart and inter-active alphabet games are as vital to their infants’ development as a mother’s milk.”
Some of the companies mentioned are The Baby Einstein Company, Brainy Baby, and BabyFirstTV.
I guess when my kids were babies, we were just hearing about things like this.
It seems that there has also been a number of complaints about what these companies are offering.
Here is the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood website, which documents the complaints that have been filed with the Federal Trade Commissionabout these companies.
