Well, according to Time, letting your child watch an hour of Baby Einstein or Brainy Baby might not be beneficial and may even be detrimental to the baby’s language development.
From the article,
the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. “The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew,” says Christakis. “These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos.
Well, Matthew loves watching children’s programs (Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine, Out of the Box, and others) on cable. But we also make sure that we read and talk to him. And found that it does help him in his vocabulary. It really amazes me sometimes when he’s able to string a simple sentence and he even knows how to use the correct tense. 
Think it also helps that he goes to childcare centre that has proper lesson plans.
(via Geekdad - do read the comments)
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