30-Something Parents

I thought this was a funny read! Remember Amy Sohn from the mid 90s?

Amy Sohn: 'Baby Einstein' Was My Porn

As I packed up my Baby Einstein DVDs to ship them back to Disney, I felt excited for the easy cash but also a little sad. After public-health lawyers threatened Disney with a class-action lawsuit for unfair and deceptive practices, arguing that the Baby Einstein series does not turn babies into geniuses, Disney agreed to refund the full purchase price of DVDs bought after 2004.

My husband and I began to buy the videos in 2005 when my daughter was an infant, and for the next two years, Baby Einstein was my porn, my escape. And it's not easy to give up porn. Though the series’ claim was that it made children smart by introducing them to language, art and classical music, what made it compelling to me as a new mom were the interstitial montages of parents and children, a kind of fantasy for harried mothers like myself.

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