Customer Reviews

Baby Einstein 3pk [VHS]

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I first purchased Baby Bach for my granddaughter who absolutely loved it. I then purchased her the other two videos: Baby Mozart and Baby Einstein. All three are excellent for not only their music, but also their content. She sits mesmerized by each of them for the entire video. (Each one is thirty minutes long.) They are excellent for parental (or grandparental) interaction. She has learned colors, objects, and counting along with the nursery rhymes and music. I would highly recommend them to anyone with a young child. I am now purchasing them as baby shower gifts.

I currently have all of the videos in this library, although I bought them separately (Baby Mozart, Baby Bach and Baby Einstein), plus Baby Shakespeare, which is not included but also produced by the Baby Einstein Company. I also have the So Smart 3-video boxed-set, as well as the BabyScapes videos, "Baby's Smart Start," and "Miracle of Mozart: Numbers & Shapes." Of all of the three companies I rate them in ranking order: 1. Baby Einstein (best) 2. BabyScapes (OK) 3. So Smart (terrible) I bought these videos four months ago for my (now) five-month-old daughter. She cannot get enough of Baby Mozart, and she really enjoys Baby Bach, too. The visuals for Baby Bach are even better than the Baby Mozart videos, but I think that she enjoy the music of Mozart more. The only drawback of the Baby Einstein videos in general is that there are annoying clips (less in Mozart than in Bach) of Ms. Aigner-Clark's children. There is a particularly annoying scene in Bach where her older daughter says something rather unintelligible followed by an irritatingly artificial laugh-track. My daughter begins whining when the videos cut to this scene and it is hard for her attention to focus back on the more interesting visuals. The Baby Einstein video is not a great attention getter, but also OK. I would note that the Russian speaker speaks with an accent, and, that while I generally admire the accomplishments of Ms. Aigner-Clark, her speaking voice is thin and unpleasant... to both my ear and my children's, too. She speaks a lot in both the Baby Shakespeare and Baby Einstein videos. The So Smart set has very mundane, cheap low-tech computer-generated videos. My 5-month-old will not watch them for even 2 minutes. The BabyScape video, "Baby's Smart Start," is also a total flop with my daughter. However, "Miracle of Mozart: Numbers & Shapes" is pretty good and will hold her attention when she is in a good mood. This is also (like So Smart, but UNLIKE Baby Einstein's products) computer-amination based visuals, but more "intelligent" than the So Smart series. Nevertheless it is not as enthralling to her as the Baby Mozart and Baby Bach. If you are interested in a small library for infants, the two to own are Baby Mozart & Baby Bach. These are totally capitvating for my daughter - this library looks like a good deal. Minus one star for the unprofessional speaking voice and the clips of the kids.

We purchased this exact item from Amazon, not long ago, because our baby (like everyone elses'!) LOVES the Baby Mozart video. It's a sure-fire cure for anything that ails her, and I highly recommend it. I won't bother repeating the praise already written here. Our daughter was a bit *less* thrilled with the other two tapes included in this pack. Baby Bach is enjoyable, but nowhere near the magic of Baby Mozart (I hate to say it, but Bach's music isn't as fun for babies, either). I agree with the other reviewers that creator Julie Aigner-Clark featured her children FAR too much, to the extent that you may feel you're watching her home videos. Her older daughter cannot be understood in the cutesy audio clips. It will drive you a little crazy. Our daughter enjoys the tape, but not as much as her #1 choice above. She is actually frightened by part of it (the sledding kids), though I'm not sure why. Baby Einstein was a disappointment for me, because I'm a foreign language enthusiast--I didn't expect to find it boring, but I do. Our daughter still enjoys watching the images on the screen, however. *Most Importantly* -- I feel that potential purchasers should know--the videos come shrink-wrapped *together*. We already had a copy of Baby Mozart, so I had planned to give the new one away as a gift. This wasn't possible, since once I opened the pack, it wasn't "new" anymore. Also, the CD included is a 20 minute long *sampler* of the other soundtracks available from the Baby Einstein company. It comes in a cardboard envelope. I purchased this set for $40 (it has dropped in price since then) and ended up feeling like I should have bought each item separately, and skipped the CD altogether.

We have viewed Baby Einstein and Baby Bach with our 1 yr old daughter since she was 3 months old. This series of videos is DIFFERENT from anything I've ever seen on the market today. Their content is based on research around what BABIES actually LIKE to see, what THEY find visually stimulating. The real world items, toys, and both animate and inanimate object which appear on screen, viewed UP CLOSE, in very short segments (10-20 seconds), on alternating BLACK and WHITE backgrounds LITERALLY CAPTIVATED our infant daughter. The classical music on Baby Bach even soothed her (and us! ) to sleep sometimes...a miracle for our, then, very fussy newborn. We enjoy the various languages spoken on Baby Eistein and actually learned a few catch phrases through repetition. While Baby Einstein is clearly NOT designed to teach children how to speak a foreign language, they ARE designed to stimulate areas of the brain which would otherwise be ignored in a child not exposed to such foreign sounds/language....the idea being that perhaps later in life, should she choose to learn this language, it would be easier for her to orally produce the sounds of the foreign language not present in her mother tongue--English. Primarily these videos are a pleasure to watch, they are fun, we LOVE and anticipate the arrival of the various segments throughout. I take great joy in knowing that these videos can be enjoyed by our family without comprising our keen desire to provide primarily only educational viewing content. I HIGHLY recommend these to friends/families and they make a VERY UNIQUE gift to those who are expecting.

I received this collection as a gift at a baby shower. All the moms there assured me that my baby would enjoy these (earlier than I might expect). Were they ever correct. I first popped one in the VCR when our son was 10 weeks old. I had never seen him so animated. He was amazingly attentitive to the pictures. He kicked and flapped his arms so much his bouncer seat was really rocking! He is now 9 months old, and we watch one every day (it's nice to have three videos to rotate, so I don't lose my sanity). He starts kicking and smiling as soon as the opening screen comes up. The videos really grow with him -- he enjoys aspects now that he didn't earlier, and some of the things that used to amuse him don't anymore. But he watches them in their entirety every time. He even watches the end portion where she explains the research behind the videos. It gives me a welcome hands-free 30 minutes to eat my lunch, or catch up on a few things, and I know it's quality stuff he's viewing.

At first, our 8 month old daughter did not pay much attention to this video series. She liked the Baby Smart Start and So Smart! videos that she was already familiar with. We played the video while she was playing on the floor and within a week she was watching the videos and enjoying them. Ditto to the other reviewers about the poor audio and the over use of the producer's kids in the Bach video. This set completed our infant video library so our daughter would have variety.

My best friend gave me the baby Mozart video when my son was just 2 months old. Believe it or not he actually sat through and watched the whole entire video. The older he gets the more he loves it. He can be really fussy and I put in baby Mozart and he is at peace. I love the fact that it is classical music and teaching him shapes and colors. I just added baby Doolittle, baby Bach, baby Einstein and baby Santa to our collection. My son who is now 4 months adores all of them! I would reccomend them for anyone!

These videos are all wonderful! I purchased Baby Mozart for my child when he was about 2 1/2 months old and he loved it the first time he watched it. Now 13 months old, he still loves Baby Mozart and continues to get very excited when he watches it. Although he is less enthusiastic about Baby Einstein (not as much music, which he really responds to), he has loved every video we have purchased in the series. My new favorites (and his) are the Baby Dolittle videos (one is about neighborhood animals and the other more exotic ones). He starts clapping and stomping the minute they come on. They are very educational and teach various animals and the sounds they make. When he was very little we turned on Baby Mozart every night during dinner so he could watch and we could listen to the really quite delightful classical music and have a peaceful dinner. Now, I turn them on sometimes during the day and he plays while watching them, which is a great way to keep him in the den without wandering through the entire house or climbing up and down the stairs. All in all, money very well spent.

I bought these videos after my son was visiting a prospective babysitter. She had one of the videos on and he couldn't take his eyes off of it. Now we have them at home and it's great. I'll put him in his pumpkin seat in front of the TV while I'm doing housework - and he'll sit and watch a video for 20-30 min. at a time. When he's watching them, he'll start screaming in excitement - kicking his arms and legs. I can't believe a video can be so entertaining for such a young baby. They're great.

These videos are GREAT! My 7month old is absolutely mesmerized for the entire 30minutes of each. We started her out at 1month and she seems to enjoy them more each time she sees them. Good to buy tired Moms & Dads a 30min break now and then. If your kid is going to watch TV anyway, this is prob better than the rugrats.... Only prob was the recording tape quality was poor in place .. might be worth getting the DVD version.