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“Ms. Rachel” has become a household name for nearly every parent with a baby or toddler. Her YouTube channel, Songs for Littles – Toddler Learning Videos, has over 3 million subscribers and her videos have hundreds of millions of views. The woman behind Ms. Rachel is Rachel Griffin Accurso, a preschool teacher and mother living in New York City. Her husband is a Broadway composer who helps to produce her YouTube channel. As she explained in a recent interview on the Today show, she started the YouTube channel because her son did not speak his first word until nearly 3 years old and she could not find a television show that targeted language development to help him.
Her YouTube channel description claims that her videos “help children learn to talk, learn letters, numbers, colors, animal sounds and more..
- Sunday, September 8, 2024