Honestly, when i heard about this.  I laughed.  The stupidity in this country is amazing.  I bought some coffee creamer the other day and the warning label said "WARNING NOT TO BE USED AS INFANT FORMULA"

Maybe they will keep them around with the warning label "WARNING WILL NOT MAKE YOUR CHILD A GENIUS"

Goodness people.

I like baby einstein because the music is nice and the images are cool and creative. But i definitely dont think ONeill will be learning from them. Lol. I just use it when I need a break.

bravo!

They are educational though.Maybe I'm the only one who willingly admits it, but my son gets the monthly books from that company's scholastic, and there have been several things in those cards and books, mainly terms, that I didn't know. My son doesn't live in front of the t.v., but he knows Mozart from Bach. I dont know why thats important, but until these tapes I did not.

I will interact with my children and not let a cartoon do it for me =)

@averyswife@xanga - I completely agree.  Just because parents "should know better" (and let's be honest, the vast majority DO) does not make outright lying in your marketing acceptable.  Completely valid suit imo.

Oh my god, people are actually trying to sue Disney because Baby Einstein doesn't work? The fact that Baby Einstein doesn't work is not shocking to me. The fact that people are suing over it DOES shock me.

I agree with you 100%! Although, it really doesn't shock me that people expected Baby Einstein to work. There are a lot of parents (and I'm not saying all parents, obviously) that want so badly to just be able to plop their kid in front of the TV and forget that they are there for as long as possible and let the TV raise and babysit their children that they want something like Baby Einstein to work so badly!

That's bad parenting. I'm sorry, but it is. You need to be pro-active with your kids. And especially if you don't use something like it is supposed to be used, it will never work, no matter what it is or what you bought it for. :p Baby Einstein is really meant to be an enhancement tool for things that you are already doing for/with your baby. If you don't use it like that, you don't get anymore educational use from it for your child than letting them watch Spongebob.

And I hate to have this outlook, but I and many people I know have actually heard mothers say that they don't have to teach their children even the fundamental things like right from wrong because that's the daycare and school systems' jobs. Seriously! I was floored the first 25 times I heard mothers say this! How could any mother think that? O.o;

So, it doesn't surprise me that people wanted to use Baby Einstein like it was the best answer for a babysitter. :/

I can't imagine that this lawsuit will go very far. Wouldn't they have to prove that without Baby Einstein their child would have seen a significant difference in intelligence by the point that they brought the lawsuit against Disney in order to win or recover any damages? And how can they prove that? I don't know, seems a little impossible to me.

But, then again, it still amazes me to look back and think that that woman who got hot coffee to go from that fast food restaurant (i can't remember if it was McDonald's or Hardee's) and then spilled it on herself and then sued the restaurant because they didn't have a warning saying the coffee was hot won anything. But, from what I always heard she did win and that's why they have the Caution: Hot! all over the hot drinks. --;

So if something as silly as that can win, then I guess these people can win their case against Disney, but you know...I really hope not. This is a frivolous lawsuit and I always thought we were supposed to have laws in place to stop frivolous lawsuits. Because, they just cost the taxpayers time and money (especially money!) for no real reason.

Sometimes the audacity of people baffles me. o.O;

People are so dumb--most people are so willing to blindly buy into any gimmicky product that comes along without doing their own research beforehand.

My daughter is 7 months old, and her father and I have made it clear to friends and family that she is not to be watching TV for any reason at this point in time (that includes Disney channel, Baby Einstein, and all those shows that are supposedly for the benefit of very small children). We've gotten questions and comments about it, because in my experience, most people don't see the harm. I do see the harm, because I took the time to read up on it myself. Educational TV is still TV. There has been research to suggest that watching any TV before the age of 2 is linked to problems with attention span. Plus, there's the obvious--why plop my kid down in front of a TV when you could play with her yourself? Play some music in the background while you play with her, if you want her to learn about music. Play with some colored blocks if you want to teach her about colors. TV should not be doing those things for you.

I actually had another mom "brag" to me that her child was already watching the Disney channel--as if that was something to be proud of! The child is only a few months older than my daughter. This is the same mom who habitually makes comments to me that come off sounding like she knows best. I think she does mean well, but sometimes she sounds very condescending and she really has a way of making me feel about 2 inches tall sometimes. When she told me about her child watching (and enjoying) TV, I was thinking, wow, this is stupidity at its finest. Do some research, instead of blindly believing what you see and hear!

i agree,using the tv to babysit your child won't work..now that he's over 1yr..he actually ENJOYS sitting there and watching certain things, like yo gabba gabba ok maybe not so much sitting, i'll dance and sing along with him. He'll request for me to put it on and scream out GABBA!! He likes to watch the things they teach and try to mimic everything. =) of course parents have to play too, randomly sing the songs and dance the dances, they really like you interacting with them along with their favorite cartoon! leaving a child alone w/ a cartoon, not for me...