The Associated Press reported today that The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its “Baby Einstein” videos for toddlers in response to challenges about the legitimacy of its educational claims. The company upgraded a customer satisfaction program beginning last month by explicitly offering cash refunds on any DVDs bought from June 5, 2004 to September 4, 2009. Here are the details of the program directly from Disney’s website.

The Baby Einstein™ DVD Upgrade or Money Back Guarantee

Participation Guidelines

To participate, you must have purchased a Baby Einstein DVD between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009.  Read the rest of this post...

It’s Wild Week on Five Hens!  All this week, we’ll be featuring posts on how you and your family can enjoy wildlife.  Upcoming posts will include a guest post from Barbara Spagnuolo, Natural Resource Specialist for the City of Castle Rock, Colorado on Experiencing Wildlife Safely with Your Kids.  We’ll also help you find ways to get outside with your kids with the National Wildlife Federation’s “Be Out There Guide”, carve some great wildlife pumpkins with the World Wildlife Fund’s awesome wild pumpkin stencils, and find the Top 10 Zoos in the U.S. for you and your family.  We’ll also be reviewing and giving away a copy of National Geographic’s Ten Best of Everything : Families book to help you find even more ways to get out there, as well as reviewing and giving away tickets to one of our favorite wildlife attractions here in Colorado, the Wildlife Experience.  So join us this week and go wild with the Five Hens!

The Five Hens are happy to announce the release of the first edition of our Hen House Newsletter.  It’s chock full of all the Five Hens news and info plus exclusive content not yet available on our website.  You can also get a glimpse of all of our upcoming giveaways, product reviews, “Do Good” Challenges and post topics for the month of October.  If you haven’t already, please subscribe to The Hen House Newsletter to get all the latest Five Hens news and information delivered to your e-mail inbox every month. Subscribers also receive exclusive giveaway and freebie offers announced only in our newsletter.  Click here to subscribe now.  Read the rest of this post...

At the Five Hens, we love museums and this Saturday, September 26th, the Smithsonian Magazine is doing us all good by hosting a FREE Museum Day. That’s right. Compliments of the Smithsonian Magazine, you can enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to literally hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide on Saturday (and some on Sunday too). To get your free admission, you’ll need to present a Museum Day admission card at participating Museum Day locations. You can download your admission card from the Smithsonian’s site by clicking that big Museum Day Admission Card picture right here on our site.

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