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Entertaining baby video
My daughter has been watching this one since she was 4 months old and still loves it at 10 months. She loves the puppets and toys. My only issue with it is the volume. For each color, there is a vignette featuring a puppet with a voice-over of a poem about the color. It is impossible to hear the poem unless you really crank the volume up. All other sounds (background, sound effects, and music) are normal.

Great Baby Einstein Video
So far my daughter has seen three baby einstein videos and I recently rented Baby Van Gogh and she LOVES it. I have never seen her get so excited when watching any of the other videos. I loved that it teaches color and does it in such a great way. Great video highly recommended.

Get REAL!!!
I have watched at least 8 of the Baby Einstein, Bach, Neptune, etc videos. Do you think your kids are REALLY that intellectually disadvantaged that they require rapid flashy ADHD images to ATTENTION-GET and ATTENTION-KEEP?! I think there are a few too many people underestimating their children. The concept of these videos is good but the product itself is a failure. They are too babyish--even for a baby! A friend of mine has this complete collection and wondered how my child knew the material long before her two older kids and her kids watch these videos a lot. Her kids have been glued to these videos and can FOCUS on NOTHING unless there are BELLS & WHISTLES and excessive activity. My child doesn't watch these videos and doesn't need a lot of INTENSITY to force her to focus. I keep her environment CALM. I consider most of these videos to be an insult to the intelligence of most children. The videos on Neighborhood Animals and Baby Neptune Discovering Water weren't too too bad, but the rest I saw would have been a terrible waste of money. SIT with your kids and READ to them! There is NO WAY around it to educate your kids! Show them REAL pictures of animals in kids books. I took small boxes and pasted pictures of real animals on each panel. Kids love to hold these boxes/blocks and turn them around as you tell them what the animals are. Have you heard of GEO KIDS by National Geographic? It is a video series for kids under 5. My child sees these and she likes me to discuss it with her. There is time to discuss. It is not full of ADHD hyper, flashing images and flying or spinning toys (that's ridiculous and insulting!) so there is TIME for you to sit with your children and explain what they are looking at and you INTERACT with the children as you should. Of course, my child wasn't glued to the TV the first time I showed the National Geographic video. THAT IS NOT THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS OF A VIDEO! She would look at parts of it and then go play and come back and see other parts and over time became more interested as her attention span grew. The result is that she's learning to focus on things which are at a NORMAL pace. If we show our kids ATTENTION-GRABBING HYPER videos, their attention spans are not forced to grow and MAY NEVER GROW. Why would you want to train your children to be mentally LAZY? When our children are in college, hopefully the professors won't have to lecture AND do cartwheels to GRAB the attention of all of the attention-deficit kids who lived on these hyper videos. Baby Einstein might help to produce a lot of kids who will be admired for their skills at the video arcade. Another good series is the National Geographic REALLY WILD ANIMALS. I think that's geared towards age 4-8. If you were to get a single animal video, though, I think the best I've seen was Brainy Baby Animals. It has a good pace.

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