The Bad Way to Teach Music to Babies - Dubious YouTube Channels & Bleeping Toys

In this video I explore the deficiencies of products claiming to help teach young babies about music by focusing on popular musical toys and youtube channels. Along the way I make reference to two brain development studies and one interesting experiment by the well known YouTuber, Rick Beato. Support me by becoming a Patreon! ----- Related Material: A decent book on the subject, written for non-musicians Fascinating talk about how children learn language Related Articles The Brahms Lullaby on Three Row Melodeon An app founded by Rick Beato which delivers playlists chosen to develop babies’ musical ears Talks Improving early child development with words - Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl --- Note: if you hadn’t already guessed, the video of the baby playing guitar isn’t real!