So I have every faith in the fact that my tot watching baby Einstein is somehow better than him watching a fly on the wall or the three stooges, however, I don’t understand the creepy bear. Being the neurotic new parent of an only child I of course previewed the DVD before subjecting my tiny test case to it…..I get it the music, the motion, the low-key-no-sudden-moves-anti-over-stimulation, but that bear?

It’s true, my tiny prodigy can’t get enough of the weird lady’s hand opening and closing doors and the surreal 1940s style cone puppets  bobbing up and down to Beethoven but why? I am sure that there are numerous lengthy answers to my question in line with attention span and developmental stages but I have to be honest, the first couple of time I watched the video I actually worried that it might make my kid kind of a dullard. I mean there is something to be said for actually hearing voices and seeing face but again, I guess that is what infants and toddlers get in spades before there are mobile – a bunch of loud mouth floating heads hovering over them all the time, in which case the random cone puppet and train on the track are probably kind of like a little vacation.