Baby's First Impressions: Letters

My daughter started watching this video at four months old when she would wake up in the wee hours of the morning wanting to play and I wanting desperately to sleep! i started, just on a whim popping this in for her - and she was RIVETED right from the start. the music, the kids, the colors, all of it just drew her in and kept her attention every night! i went ahead and bought her the whole set of videos! Well, by the time my DD turned 1, she knew and recognized teh ENTIRE alphabet and the SOUNDS (not just surface ABC singing here), not to mention she knew her shapes and colors and numbers to twenty by aroung the same time. well, I was floored!Since she understood so much, by the time she was 2, I went ahead and got her started with Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Kindergarten Complete - Amazon Exclusive Edition (I have review on here about it somewhere) - she didn't need any priming because all of the foundation was there - and by the time she was 3 she was reading simple books quite well. by the time she was 4, she was into chapter books! Fast forward to her current age of 7 and she is going into the FIFTH GRADE! I have had to homeschool here because the schools could not keep up with the progress she was making. I can honestly say that having this video series opened up a whole world of potential for my daughter and I have bought the set as gifts for EVERY new family member!

Bought because of the reviews and it turned out to be true. My granddaughter is not even 2 and at like 20 months old she learned to count and many number recognition. The numbers one is excellent as well. Made in the 90s but use real kids and babies which my granddaughter loves. She knows most of the alphabet. Have to continue watching to remember.

Our 15mo enjoys watching it & tries to say the letters along with the littles on the DVD. It has easy listening music in the background too. Great way for littles to get a head start!

My son loves the real life pictures of Kids and items depicting each letter. He follows the actions of the kids in the video. Very few DVDs for kids have real life pictures. Most are cartoon based which he does not seem to like.

My mom bought a couple of these for our daughter over a year ago. Since then we've collected the entire set! Kids are absolutely glued to them and they learn at an incredible rate. Our daughter is not quite 2 and has been able to recognize and recite numbers 1-20, the entire alphabet, all of the shapes, colors, animals, signs, and opposites for months! She's heads and tales ahead of her peers. I highly recommend these for your kids or as gifts to the kids in you life- they're fantastic! Your kids will sing and laugh and dance their way to learning- it's effortless!:)

My little one loves this DVD. Thank you for such a great product.

it was not new it had a scratches on the dvd.

This is one of the few videos I will let my kids watch! It does an excellent job of teaching. It teaches both the subject matter and object recognition/vocabulary using real photography.Drawings in animated videos can be hard for inexperienced little ones to recognize--plus my 2-year-old daughter is frightened by animation! So Baby's 1st Impressions' real videography is far better.My children love the bright colors, fun movements, good music, and cheerful children. The videos are pleasing to an adult's eyes and ears, too.Most of all, kids love the learning! I've never seen age-appropriate material presented in such a simple, uncluttered, unconfusing video. My daughter has learned a lot from these videos very quickly!I really like how they say and show the initial letter, then say and show the object, putting the rest of the printed word onscreen, as well. Even though they're only teaching letters, not reading, it's nice to subtly include the big picture, too.I do wish they would do an additional video with lower-case letters, though. This one teaches only capitals.Best of all, everything in this series is 100% moral and positive. No one is dressed immodestly. No one is fighting or crying. There are no simply no negative lessons hidden in it to create problems where none had existed before.The target audience (toddlers and preschoolers) should not feel pressured to learn academics yet; they should all still think of learning as a game. But so many kids' videos and books show a character very frustrated and discouraged while trying to learn new things. Even if the other characters are trying to help the learner have fun and understand, by showing initial agony, the videos leave the impression that learning is difficult and painful. That's not so bad if your child is already struggling, but if he's enthusiastic and untroubled, why spoil it? Babies' 1st Impressions shows kids at all stages of learning just enjoying the process.(The same thing goes for media which supposedly teach how to overcome fear, or rudeness, or selfishness. It's great for parents to creatively help a child who's already afraid of the dark. But introducing masses of unafraid children to the idea of imaginary monsters just may create new problems! Kids come up with enough challenges on their own without adults introducing everyone else's. Baby's 1st Impressions doesn't introduce ANY negative scenarios.)I just wish Baby's 1st Impressions would expand and do the same thing with more complex material marketed to older kids. Anything needing memorization would work with the same approach. Cities, states, presidents, the periodic table of elements, anatomy, phonics, math facts-all done in a fun, repetitive, positive manner. Wouldn't that be great?I highly recommend Baby's 1st Impressions: Letters. You won't regret it!