I saw that coming. =) The first time I saw a Baby Einstein video with all the pictures and music I had a really hard time believing that it was going to stimulate my child to genius (it would overstimulate them, if anything.) After all, Mozart and Einstein did alright without over-marketed baby toys.
One thing I have noticed...if you expose kids to music from a young age, then they seem to become familiar with it as they grow and some of them pick up on it faster when they try to learn about music. (That's kind of a duh, though.:) Like a few months ago we were in the car and Amy recognized "Piano!" during one of the songs on the radio, and she's been able to hum a tune for awhile. I don't think playing classical music will raise my kid's SAT scores, but they might have an easier time picking up an instrument or learning to read music. So I guess I'm trying to say that there are advantages to exposing babies and toddlers to Mozart and Beethoven ...but it's just in other areas than developing a generation of super-geniuses.
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Date: 2007-04-10 09:40 pm (UTC)One thing I have noticed...if you expose kids to music from a young age, then they seem to become familiar with it as they grow and some of them pick up on it faster when they try to learn about music. (That's kind of a duh, though.:) Like a few months ago we were in the car and Amy recognized "Piano!" during one of the songs on the radio, and she's been able to hum a tune for awhile. I don't think playing classical music will raise my kid's SAT scores, but they might have an easier time picking up an instrument or learning to read music. So I guess I'm trying to say that there are advantages to exposing babies and toddlers to Mozart and Beethoven ...but it's just in other areas than developing a generation of super-geniuses.