Seems like there’s been this explo­sion of edu­ca­tional toys and videos out for chil­dren in the past few years. LeapFrog, Baby Ein­stein, and many many more.
I’ve just been think­ing though. Back when our par­ents and grand­par­ents were young, their par­ents taught them every­thing. Every sin­gle thing they learned was some­thing they learned from their par­ents. Does any­one else think it’s a bit sad that it went from par­ents teach­ing kids every­thing, to par­ents pop­ping in a Baby Ein­stein video and say­ing “Look how smart they are!“
I mean, yes they’re get­ting smarter from these toys and don’t get me wrong because it’s won­der­ful. But it seems a bit sad that the only credit par­ents have in that is going out and get­ting the toy from wal­mart or pop­ping in the dvd. What do you think?