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TV is not going to make your kid smarter!

Watching television does not make babies smarter, according to a study released this week in the journal Pediatrics.

Researchers from Children’s Hospital in Boston, and Harvard Medical School reached this conclusion after monitoring more than 800 children from birth to 3 years of age.

“Contrary to parents’ perceptions that TV viewing is beneficial to their children’s brain development, we found no evidence of cognitive benefit from watching TV during the first two years of life,” the authors wrote.

Educational DVD and videos geared towards enriching babies and toddlers, such as “BabyGenius,” “Brainy Baby” or “Baby Einstein,” which proclaim to “encourage discovery and inspire,” have no benefits, researchers said.