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Baby's First Impressions: Sounds

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I read the first review on this video and disagree with much of what was said. Yes, the video is a little corny for adults, but it's NOT for adults...it's for KIDS. My 20-month-old son (and ALL his little buddies) love it! They love to hear all the sounds that things and people make, often giggling at the funny parts. It's attention grabbing AND educational. My son prefers real-life pictures to animated ones...great for kids like this.

I like only some of the Baby's First Impressions videos (actually most of them I don't care for). I have reviewed them all. Personally I think "Sounds" is a waste of time and it's boring. I don't know why you'd really choose to set your baby, toddler or preschooler in front of this to watch. As I watched I made a list of the catagory and the sounds in each catagory (I don't think I missed any, but it's possible). Here's the list I have:

Home Sounds: telephone (they say, "This is the sound that a telephone makes" and then they have different kinds of rings), hair dryer, electric can opener, water running, water down the drain, popcorn popping (they say, "This is what popcorn sounds like. Do you like popcorn?" Actually, they should have said, "this is the sound popcorn makes *when it's popping*."), eggs frying, alarm clock (2 kinds of alarms), door bell, vaccuum.

Animal Sounds: horse, donkey, ducks, cow, kittens, rooster, goat, dog, lion, pig.

Big/Little Sounds: big clock, watch, trucks, squeeky ball, saw, toy saw, train, wind chimes, big river, quiet river, drill, toy drill, jackhammer, crib mobile, hammer, toy hammer.

Musical Sounds: guitar, piano, tamborine, xylophone, saxaphone, horn, harmonica, drums, shaker, bells, pots & pans, and then they put different sounds together for a band.

People Sounds: sneeze, cough, laughing, yell, whisper, cry, humming, happy sounds, stomping, snapping fingers, clapping, crunching, kiss, whistle.

Then they have a Mystery Sound section and a Guess The Sound Review. The one kind of clever thing was that in Guess The Sound they would have a basketball bouncing but the sound was crunching. Then they'd say something like, "no that's not the sound" and then they's do the right sound. Other things like that were kids clapping but the sound was bells jingling, a phone ringing but it sounds like a cow, etc.

I can see having videos for your young child about numbers, letters, colors, shapes and maybe even animals. But, things like this (sounds, opposites) are easy enough to just pick up on and learn without having to be sitting in front of the tv for it. In my opinion I wouldn't recommend this one (view it from the library first, at least). Read my other reviews.