Bee Smart Baby Vocabulary Builder 1

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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money!
Review: I am a teacher that has taught for twelve years both in preschool and grade school. I bought this dvd for my son who is 17 months. He was born premature and is considered speech delayed and I was thinking that this dvd might help. I was very disappointed. This dvd is nothing other than moving flash cards. The screen shows several items and repeats the item's names over and over. I understand the concept, but it failed to keep my son's attention even when I sat and watched it with him trying to redirect him toward the t.v. The second and third time viewing he wouldn't watch it at all. This dvd is going up for sale on e-bay!

Save your money and just use real objects in your house in which your child shows interest. Point to those objects, play with them, and name them. This will be a much more meaningful experience for your child. If you are looking for entertaining dvds that hold a young child's attention try the Baby Einstein series or the Sesame Street sing-along dvds.

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Summary: My 18 mon loves it
Review: I got five DVDs from Baby Einstein series and I was a bit worried BeeSmartbaby Vol. 1 DVD would not hold my son's attention because this it is in different format and my son's age (18 mon) might be too old for this DVD. Well, my son loved it and he would ask to see "baby" again and again, now he can watch 3-4 times a day.
It's worth the money to buy DVD, because you can get 5 different languages (E, S, F, G, and Japanese), a session of American sign language, a Q/A session, and flashcards in five languages. My son loves to see babies and older kids in this DVD, the Q/A session hold his attention most. Sometimes, he's not look at the TV, but he will repeat the voices he heard from TV, even in Spanish and French.
Reasons that I don't give it 5 stars- 1) the background music is a bit "loud" (not as good as baby einstein series), and the narrations aren't loud enough compared to the music; 2) The words showed on the screen aren't big and clear enough for learn to read purpose; 3) The Japanese session has no written words appears on the screen and the flashcard session is shorter.
I would like to get other DVDs and videos from this company, but I think they only have volume 1 in DVD.

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Summary: If you are looking for ASL this is NOT the video
Review: I purchased this video for my 2 1/2 year old son who's primary communication is ASL. Because he is still young and still learning sign language I thought these dvds would be great to add to his collection. Boy, were we disappointed. Maybe if you do not already know ASL the dvds are fine BUT there are MULTIPLE signs that are wrong and in no way ASL. We turned the option off because it was confusing my son. Besides that if that is not an issue for you they are great dvds. If you are looking to teach your child sign I HIGHLY recommended "Signing Times", excellent dvds!!!

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Summary: If you are looking for ASL this is NOT the video
Review: I purchased this video for my 2 1/2 year old son who's primary communication is ASL. Because he is still young and still learning sign language I thought these dvds would be great to add to his collection. Boy, were we disappointed. Maybe if you do not already know ASL the dvds are fine BUT there are MULTIPLE signs that are wrong and in no way ASL. We turned the option off because it was confusing my son. Besides that if that is not an issue for you they are great dvds. If you are looking to teach your child sign I HIGHLY recommended "Signing Times", excellent dvds!!!

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Summary: Better than Baby EINSTEIN-Not as good as Baby Babble!
Review: Just bought for my 18 month son...The dvd is not great but not horrible either, my son seems to loose his interest (compared to Sesame Street...Who wouldn't? Ha!), but keeps his interest with the baby einstein ones(we have all of them)they use alot of puppets were this cd uses Real life objects with an occasional puppet reinacting the words. This dvd is clear and repetative which I like...Example: Jump (shows children,animals jumping)Eat (shows babys eatting etc.) then it goes back and recaps all the diffrent action words. He laughs when they get to the word "tickle". They repeat alot of the words which other tapes do not (Einstein,So smart) which in my opion is good to reinforce.
My son needs the repetition, My son also has a slight language delay so that is why I bought this tape. The einstein tapes he has been watching since he was about a month old and they did not help my sons language even with me interacting with the videos, although he enjoyed them, I used to rave about the Einstein videos to every mother,bought them for my friends kids and then I found these other dvd's. I would highly recommend taking a look at the "Baby Babble" cd by talking child. That is a excellent tape done by 2 speech pathologists. That video he likes and it keeps his attention.
To sum this up....I would say this ranks 2nd compairing to all other language tapes that are on the market, Baby babble being ranked #1.

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Summary: Aweful
Review: My 20 month old son is speech delayed and I bought this DVD based on all the positive reviews I've seen. Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was horrible. First of all, it barely held my son's attention. But the worst part was that I absolutely cannot stand the music! I could barely make it through watching it even the first time. Same thing with volume 2.
We bought the Baby Babble DVD about 6 weeks ago, and I think it is much better than these Bumblebee DVD's. My son can watch Baby Babble over and over and over again.

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Summary: My baby LOVES this DVD
Review: My baby is mesmerized by this DVD. I highly recommend this as a great learning experience for children.

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Summary: My baby LOVES this DVD
Review: My baby is mesmerized by this DVD. I highly recommend this as a great learning experience for children.

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Summary: silent 20 month old boy
Review: my son jacob barely had a 2-5 word vocabulary at the age of 20 months. my pediatrician and i (a RN) were both concerned. he did not use nonverbal communication either. we were beginning to think he was mildly autistic because of his noverbal, and limited comfort w/ socializing w/ others. after watching this video, he could identify body parts when asked to point to them, and was able to say eye, nose, mouth, ears!!! my pediatrician and i are estatic to say the least, and i have now ordered the complete 13 disc set. my four yr old son, dennis, also enjoys the video which i found surprising. he has no delays of any kind, and still enjoys the videos, even if they are a bit simplistic for my 4 yr olds developmental level. i highly recommend this to other mothers concerned about their child's speech delays.

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Summary: Absolutely love this DVD
Review: My son loves these dvd's. I was suprised to see that some thought so badly of it. We have some of the baby einstein's and my son likes them as well, but with the baby bumblebee series he repeats everything that is said. It has really taught him so much. The einstein series he seemed to just laugh at and not so much learn from. Im sure he did learn, however with the bumblebee series, he sits with his crayons and colors and watches the dvd and repeats what is being said. Background info is my child is not considered speech delayed (tested) but a bit of a slow talker (2 1/2). These dvd's have helped a lot. Since some reviews have been not so good, I would suggest trying to rent these somewhere (if possible) since the price is kind of high.