Baby Really Doesn’t Need Mozart, Believe Me

If you ask me, the money-grubbing producers of these ridiculous, “intelligence-enhancing” CDs need Mozart far more than your baby does. Like every good suburban lemming, I cheerfully played Baby Needs Mozart and even Baby Needs More Mozart for my son and daughter, and I can assure you that it did nothing to improve their performance on spatial reasoning tasks or anything else for that matter. What baby really needs to become smarter is simple: fewer gizmos, gadgets, and TV and more time reading, playing, and cuddling with Mom and Dad.