Baby Einstein(TM): Baby Beethoven(TM) Symphony Of Fun - English/French/Spanish DVD- BABY BEETHOVEN(TM) SYMPHONY OF FUN is a captivating experience that exposes babies and toddlers to the beauty and benefits of classical mu... more »sic while mesmerizing them with stimulating, colorful images. Both you and your little one will love these enchanting versions of classic compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven. Baby Einstein(TM): Baby Galileo(TM) Discovering The Sky - English/French/Spanish DVD- BABY GALILEO(TM) DISCOVERING THE SKY introduces babies and toddlers to the wonders in the sky above -- the sun and moon, fluffy clouds, shimmering stars, colorful planets, and whirling galaxies. This original and inspiring look at our universe will pique your baby's curiosity through spectacular images, colorful toys, engaging puppets, and beautiful music by Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. BABY EINSTEIN(TM) uses real-world objects, music, art, language, science, and nature to introduce young children to the world around them in fun, fascinating ways. All our videos are set to music specially reorchestrated for little ears. We encourage you to watch with your baby and enjoy the sights and sounds together! Baby Einstein(TM): Baby Neptune(TM) Discovering Water - English/French/Spanish DVD- BABY NEPTUNE(TM) DISCOVERING WATER introduces babies and toddlers to the wonders of water in their world. Whether in the bathtub or the deep blue sea, in rivers or lakes, water is explored from a baby's perspective in a playful, imaginative way. It combines captivating undersea footage with visuals of silly puppets, toys, happy children, and the music of Handel, Telemann, Beethoven, and Strauss. BABY EINSTEIN(TM) uses real-world objects, music, art, language, science, and nature to introduce young children to the world around them in fun, fascinating ways. All our videos are set to music specially reorchestrated for little ears. We encourage you to watch with your baby and enjoy the sights and sounds together! Baby Einstein(TM): Numbers Nursery(TM) - English/French/Spanish DVD- Numbers Nursery(TM) introduces toddlers to the numbers 1 through 5 in a playful, interactive way that encourages them to join in and count out loud! This dynamic exploration of numbers will delight and engage your child using images of toys, puppets, and familiar real-world objects set to beautiful music by Haydn and Chopin. This unique aproach will help your todder begin to understand what numbers represent.« less
"I have read scathing reviews on how Baby Einstein is a rip-off, and that it is a waste of money to buy these videos. I have found while babysitting that every child I watch from 3 months to 4 years finds something of interest in the videos and cds. It has also been written that these are bad for children because they just sit and stare at them, when clearly if these parents had watched the entire video and listened to the explanation at the end of the movie telling them that these videos were meant to be used for interaction WITH their children not as substitute entertainment and education. And while these videos are entertaining to small children, they do get a little monotonous for adults, but what child's toy doesn't begin to annoy you after about the tenth time you hear it's song or read the same silly story that your child loves so much because you do the same silly voices while you read it that you've done the last twenty times you read it for them.
These videos and cds also have wonderful soft music and sounds fit for babies' sensitive hearing and is very soothing to not only them but you. Studies show that children exposed to different kinds of music, especially classical, show a higher use of advanced brain waves than children that aren't. Studies also show that any positive interaction with your baby advances them socially and emotionally over children that are ignored. The Baby Einstein company also makes books and toys that can be used to advance your babies in other ways. So I feel that this company is exploring every avenue of development for small children. I may not have children of my own yet but all the babies I take care of love these videos and cds, and I intend to purchase them and use them WITH my own children someday."
Love all 4!
07/12/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"My daughter is now 9 1/2 months old, and has been watching these 4 DVD's for the past 4 months or so. She absolutely loves them! They keep her totally captivated. There are times that she gets so preoccupied that I can not get her to drink her bottle, but as soon as I put one of these DVDs on, she'll calm down and drink her bottle while watching the entire video. I swear by them! I am now expecting my 2nd child, and looking into buying more of them."
Fabulous baby fun!
Christian Woods | Toronto, Ontario Canada | 06/01/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"My 1 year old absolutely loves all of the Baby Einstein videos!! I don't know what I'd do without them. They are baby eye friendly and full of wonderful music, colours and educational information that your baby can process. I know it may look a little hokey but you have to think of it from your baby's point of view. They are simple images that their little eyes and brains can process easily without flipping back and forth constantly from image to image like kids cartoons on tv. I also love that they introduce other languages and music to my child. They say that the more a child hears other languages the easier it will be for them to learn different languages later on. My daughter is just in love with them and so am I!"
Not that interesting
I. Chen | CA, USA | 10/09/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"The first dvd I played was BABY NEPTUNE(TM) DISCOVERING WATER. The quality of the real life images of water was very disappointing. It looks like cut and paste images from different tapes. The resolution also looks poor on our big HD TV.
Overall, I like the pure animation part better, and therefore, Numbers Nursery is more interesting to me.
The length of the dvd programs is kind of short for that price.
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Got these as a gift and...
Caroline's Mom | Annapolis, MD | 08/11/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"we (me, my husband and my daughter) all love them. She is 7 mos. old now, has been watching about 1 per day for 3 mos. It gives me time to make myself some toast and a cup of tea in the morning or me and my husband 20 min. to eat our dinner together and discuss our day. I know the instructions say to interact with your little one while they're watching so occasionally I'll verbalize the object, the color or describe what the children on the video are doing. I find that she is enthralled with the puppet shows on the bonus feature on the main menu...also like the multi-lingual option as they say its good for little ears to hear different languages, sounds etc. One suggestion I have is to first preview them from the local library. There are a few that I've gotten from there that she's just not that into! Now I know and it saved me a few bucks too! Overall, I would recommend these but would hesitate in giving them to someone who may use the "Repeat Play" option-if you catch my drift!"