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Summary: Simple, Quiet and Slow
Review: Although my son seems interested in this DVD right now I find that the graphics are very simple and cheap looking. I don't have too much hope that his interest will hold. Some of the animation is so strange I find it a little frightening and am hesitant to play it for my son. Also compared to other DVDs geared to babies and toddlers it is very quiet and slow.
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Summary: So Smart Vol 3:All About Letters
Review: Great learning tool. Parents must participate. They tell the child the letters and the objects as they appear. My 16th month old already knows his letters and is starting to learn the sequence of the alphabet.
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Summary: Surprisingly Good
Review: I first got the three So Smart videos when my son was an infant. I didn't think too much of them at the time as the graphics are less than perfect and frankly are quite simplistic. My son wasn't that interested in them either.My son really enjoys the Baby Einstien videos but recently, I tried a So Smart video again and my 16 month old LOVES it!!! He cracks up when the baby sounds start off the video and he dances around wildly to the classical music and other music included with the three videos. I am amazed, but he now points to the tape and asks to watch it. If we move the tape around, he locates it and asks to watch it. The tapes are filled with graphics of fairly odd faces that for some reason really grab my sons attention. Their eyes blink, they have different hair and skin color and all in all he finds the entire thing fascinating. This video and all the So Smart videos including the Spanish video are a surprising success in our household. I strongly recommend them.
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Summary: Best tool to learn letters!!
Review: I showed my daughter section(s) of this dvd every Saturday morning for about 2 months. She can reconize and tell me letters A-Z since she was 18 month old. The key to sucessfully using this dvd is "Parent Participation". Like when the video introducing letter "B", and a Bee is flying on the screen, we play pretend as a bee "flying" around. It works like magic.
You may want to play the video in sections, like watch the first section (A-F) the first time, see how it goes. If baby is ready to move forward, play the first and second sections the next time.
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Summary: Best tool to learn letters!!
Review: I showed my daughter section(s) of this dvd every Saturday morning for about 2 months. She can reconize and tell me letters A-Z since she was 18 month old. The key to sucessfully using this dvd is "Parent Participation". Like when the video introducing letter "B", and a Bee is flying on the screen, we play pretend as a bee "flying" around. It works like magic.
You may want to play the video in sections, like watch the first section (A-F) the first time, see how it goes. If baby is ready to move forward, play the first and second sections the next time.
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Summary: very educational and relaxing
Review: My 11 month old son loves this DVD. I ocassionally put it on when he's ready for a nap or bedtime. I hold him and say each letter and keep naming new words that start with the letter. The DVD comes with a CD that has the same classical music. He listens to it when he's falling asleep. This would be a very nice gift for a new family.
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Summary: Better than Baby Einstein tapes
Review: My toddler loves this tape and it has probably done more to teach him the alphabet than anything else we've tried. It's also taught him word associations. For example, the letter J is seen "jumping" and showed my son how to jump! Because the images are animated, these videos don't come across as extended toy commercials. Also missing is the aggravating images of the producer's children you find in all the Baby Einstein tapes. Another plus: the tapes are actually 30 minutes long, whereas the Baby Einstein tapes all are shorter than this. Why the BE tapes are everywhere and these are hard to find is a mystery to me. All three are worth hunting down. They are all gems!
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Summary: Simple and So Smart
Review: Our son was 22 months old when friends of ours gave him this DVD/CD set to offset all the gifts given to his baby brother recently born. We'd already been teaching him the ABC song, and thought this DVD would be an additional encouragement when we put it on. Little did we know. Like an earlier reviewer, every time the baby giggles in the title, our son laughs "BABY!" We watch the talking letters version and repeat the narration together. On the first viewing our son got so excited he danced around the room as the letters and pictures moved on, off, and around the screen. He sings along to the classical music soundtrack. Wow. The images are simplistic and crude, based on the research of Dr. Ludington-Hoe (see How to Have a Smarter Baby), so that they are striking and captivating for young minds. At just over two years of age our eldest can sing the ABC song, knows every letter in the alphabet, and has a vocabulary and communicative understanding that stuns most of the people we hang with. The best part of this DVD is the required parent/caregiver-child interaction. Without asking my son questions about what he is watching, viewing this DVD is pointless. My only complaint is that the DVD games don't have background music. This shortcoming is easily remedied by an external CD player and the supplied "Playtime" CD.
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Summary: Best Baby Videos on the Market!
Review: So Smart! is a series of award-winning videos and music, specially designed for young minds. Organized around fundamental subjects, So Smart! introduces babies and toddlers to shapes, letters, colors, music, foreign language, and more. I purchased my first So Smart video (Volume 1) when my son was around 6 months old. One night, my son woke up in the middle of the night screaming. Nothing I tried settled him down. Exhausted, I finally brought him in bed with us, turned on the TV and VCR, pushed the Play button, and turned on the So Smart! video. After a few minutes, my baby started watching the video and immediately stopped crying. He was mesmerized by the simple objects and soothing music. He sat in my arms (at 3 a.m!) and quietly watched the video for 30 minutes. I was astonished (and pleasantly surprised.) It was a god-send! I immediately ordered two other So Smart! videos and was equally impressed. By watching So Smart! Volume 3: All About Letters with my son, he could recognize most of the letters of the alphabet by the time he was one and-a-half. It was amazing! Our son is now 3 years old, and everybody keeps asking us, "How do you teach him all this stuff" and I tell them about the So Smart! video series.... So Smart! videos are an interactive way for you to spend quality time with your little one. I highly recommend these award-winning products. The videos may seem simple and uninteresting to an adult, but they're just what a little mind needs to grow!
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Summary: THE BEST
Review: The viewer from Concord has it spot-on. The So Smart videos are simply the best -- there are no commercial tie-in's (like Baby Einstein), the music is classical and is not the toy-like sounding music that the Baby Einstein videos use. We play the So Smart videos sometimes during dinner because the music is the same you would hear by playing a CD or the radio, and our kids will watch while we listen and eat in peace. My oldest son also learned his alphabet from watching this video with me -- almost by accident. One day he just started telling ME what the letters were. Pass on the Baby Einstein -- So Smart is much better.
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