Barney DVD Collection (Barney's Let's Play School/Barney's Rhyme Time Rhythm) - Amazon.com Exclusive

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Summary: Want to shower? Sit down and eat a meal in Peace & Quiet?
Review: You get one hour to do what you want! A lot of videos are only 30 minutes. These are enough time to settle a little one down, take a quick shower & eat something. WITH PEACE & QUIET.

I love them! All my kids at about 18 mos to 2yrs attached themselves to a character and my 4th child, now 2 yrs old loves Barney. This 2 CD was perfect! I'm on a budget and at $20 for the set (ten for each CD at a local *mart) was inexpensive and and cheaper than buying a single DVD or video plus I get variety. She loves them both and my older boy loves them both because in Pre-K he was learning his nursery rhymes and now that school is out, he loves the Let's Play School.

The Rhyme Time Rhythm has all the classic Nursery Ryhmes:
Did You Ever See a Lassie?
Hey Diddle Diddle
London Bridge
Peter Piper
Humpty Dumpty
To Market
This is the House that Jack Built
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Little Miss Muffeet
Jack Be Nimble
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Show
Simple Simon
A Tisket, A Tasket
And a couple of Medleys of other Nursery Rhymes

Let's Play School DVD has:
One Two Buckle My Shoe
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Where is Thumbiin
and other Barney Songs.

Both are cool DVD's. I give them 5 stars because they are classis with their rhymes and they are longer than most at 1 hour long for each DVD.

I must give a thumbs down, though, not specifically to this DVD set, but ALL DVD's, they are not kid friendly. I have to wait an entire minute (for a 18-24 mos old-that is an eternity) for Barney to start with their preview/federal law BS. I can NOT click to go directly to the disc menu to play the movie. Nor will the movie start until after the preview/federal law BS, but then I have to stay and push the play button after all that. I need instant start of the movie for children-they are impatient. I will say, that on some videos over the years, I have seen a decrease in the previews. They seem to be at the end of some of the movies now.

I push for self-sufficiency as early as I can and my older kids were playing VHS tapes and switching them all by themselves by 2 yrs old. (Push the tape in and it plays) All I had to do was show them the eject button and they could push another tape in. It was that simple. I hope they get the DVD's that way soon.