Walt Disney Offers Refunds for Baby Einstein DVDs

Xin Lu — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:02 +0000

A few months ago I wrote that I thought that "educational" DVDs for babies such as Baby Einstein were a waste of money because their educational benefits were quite dubious. It seems that a group of lawyers threatened a class action lawsuit last year against Disney for deceptive practices since the videos are heavily marketed as educational but research showed that television could actually be detrimental for very young children. Now Disney is offering a refund of up to $15.99 for each Baby Einstein DVD. Here are some details on how you can trade in your old Baby Einstein videos for some cash or a different product.

First you should print out an official mail-in certificate from the Baby Einstein DVD Upgrade / Money Back Guarantee website. Each household can return or exchange up to four DVDs that were purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009. You do not need to send in any receipts, but you need to fill out a claim form for each DVD you are sending in. The offer allows you to trade your DVD for a different Baby Einstein product, a 25% off coupon code for Little Einstein products at DisneyStore.com, or $15.99 cash. If you return the maximum of four DVDs then you can get a check for $63.96.

All submissions must be postmarked by March 4, 2010 and mailed to:

The Baby Einstein DVD Guarantee/Upgrade Offer
P.O. Box 3200
Neenah, WI 54957-3200

If you just happen to have these DVDs lying around and no longer have a need for them then taking this offer would definitely yield more cash than selling the DVDs at a garage sale or online.

Photo Credit: Baby Einstein DVD image is from the Amazon.com Associates Program.

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Mind Over Math - Believing It Makes It So

Andrea Karim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:53:58 +0000

There are many, many web sites that are devoted to helping you find actvities for your kids that boost their brain power. Turns out that there is another great way to help your kids improve their grades and keep their brains active and growing — it's simply matter of mind over matter.

From NPR.org:

A new study in the scientific journal Child Development shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.... "Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone," Dweck says. "They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't I have enough?'" Dweck calls this a "fixed mindset" of intelligence. "Other children think intelligence is something you can develop your whole life," she says. "You can learn. You can stretch. You can keep mastering new things."

A scientific study tracked 7th grade students whose math grades were suffering. One group of students was provided with a mini-neuroscience class, and taught that intelligence is not a fixed thing, but rather something that can grow and develop over time. The other group were simply given lessons on how to "study well."

The students who believed that "the brain actually forms new connections every time you learn something new, and that over time, this makes you smarter" showed a marked improvement in their math skills.

"If you think about a child who's coping with an especially challenging task, I don't think there's anything better in the world than that child hearing from a parent or from a teacher the words, 'You'll get there.' And that, I think, is the spirit of what this is about."

To think, all these parents spending hundreds of dollars on Baby Einstein videos to show to tiny toddlers, and all they had to do was repeat "You'll get smarter, little buddy. You'll get smarter every day."

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