Customer Reviews

Brainy Baby: Left Brain - Inspires Logical Thinking

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This video was fun for my daughter when she was an infant, but now that she is older she loves to read off the alphabet as she sees it and call out and identify other things she sees on screen. The music is calming but the content is stimulating, a great combination. The babies are beautiful and charming... and I do like my daughter to see the ethnic diversity represented here. This is a great tool, both for entertainment and calming affect, but also for review and teaching of basic concepts for preschoolers.

As a member of a local pre-school association as well as a clinical psychologist and mother of two young boys, my friends and colleagues and I have found all the Brainy Baby DVD's to be wonderful tools to use with our children. And, they make great gifts for friends with new babies and for children's birthdays.

My 3-year old, Sam, can read and spell hundreds of words, identify (and spell) shapes and colors and loves listening to classical music. I see how much of this has been stimulated by watching the Brainy Baby videos. Each of the Brainy Baby DVD's has been a hit and the sum of them have provided a wonderful pre-school education for my kids.

The Brainy Baby videos, right brain and left brain, are the best of the baby videos by far. They are so much better to me than the Baby Einstein videos -- first of all, there is some diversity in the babies and children featured in the videos! Also, the production quality is good, the music is great, the tapes last a tad longer than the Baby Einsteins, so you're getting more tape for your money, and the narrator's voice is very baby friendly without being irritating to the parents. This was a great purchase!!

Our family has both the Brainy Baby series and the baby einstein videos. Brainy Baby simply beats Baby Einstein hands down! ... Everyone that we talk to gives Brainy Baby a 5 star rating. ... The Brainy Baby series is most certainly worth the investment. As a mom, here is what I would tell you: ...If your child watches Brainy Baby, they actually LEARN their ABC's, 123's, Colors, etc. as well as being entertained with BEAUTIFUL images! (Not to mention that Brainy Baby is 50% longer than Einstein for the same price). Brainy Baby has not only taught our 17 month old daughter the ENTIRE alphabet, but it has been a lifesaver for my sanity too! I can't imagine any home without Brainy Baby. One more thing... for those of you who don't believe in these types of videos for early education, does your baby know the alphabet at age 17 months? These products can only help. Why wait until your child is too old to benefit.

This is by far the best gift I received for my baby! I never write reviews, but the Right Brain/Left Brain series are so wonderful, I couldn't help but to express my opinion. My son has been watching them since he was two months old. He is now 8 months old and still enjoys them. I recently purchased the ABC's one, and even though it says it is for ages 2-5, he sat straight up in his bouncy seat for almost the entire video. In my opinion, these are so much better than the Baby Einstein series--my son is not nearly as engaged in the Baby Bach and Mozart Einstein videos that I have tried.

I purchased these used from a bookstore that buys and resells used books and videos. I think my baby boy was about 5 months old at the time. These were the ONLY videos that ever captured his attention at that young age. Any other video--Disney, Baby Einstein, etc.--just had him crying within a few minutes. These, though, he would watch to the end, fascinated. To this day, he loves them, and he is now 15 months old; the tapes are WORN OUT so I am reordering them both. Not only does he still love them, but I just had a new baby, and I am hoping they will entertain her just as much. In fact, the other night, we accidentally woke him up and he cried and cried and wouldn't go back to sleep. Finally, in desperation, my husband popped one of these into the VCR, and my son was INSTANTLY quieted the moment he heard the familiar music; in no time at all he was ready to go back to bed.

We have since purchased most of the other titles in the Brainy Baby series--he loves them all, the music, the images of the babies, etc. The ABC video is especially well-done. He also gradually learned to enjoy other types of videos by Baby Einstein, Sesame Street, etc. But these two left & right brain videos are still his very favorites.

This is the review that almost wasn't. We bought this DVD months ago, and our daughter cried within moments of it coming on. She was very much a Baby Einstein kid. Recently, she actually asked for this DVD (luckily we hadn't given it away yet). She's 25 months and speech delayed. She usually sits quietly when a show is on. After watching this a couple of times, she was repeating sounds and actually tried to recite the alphabet. The repetitive nature of the DVD series seems to be the key, here. We've since acquired Right Brain, English and ABCs, all of which she loves and responds to. I can't wait to get more.

We bought both of the tapes (left and right brain). As a teacher of young children the tapes present math, problem solving, colors, numbers and a even Spanish and French in an age appropriate manner. My son really enjoys the interactive style of the videos and the colorful presentation. I highly recommend these videos for your child or as a gift.

My kids (ages 3 and 1 )have been growing up with the Baby Einstein series. I decided to try something else. The "Left Brain" format is very similar using colorful toys, children and classical music. They just don't have the nack at entertaining the way Baby Einstein does. My 1 year old enjoys it more than the 3 year old, who just wanders off, but even he gets bored before its over.

The production quality is good and I do appreciate that the music is played by an orchestra and not a lone synthesizer but overall I can not reccomend these videos as development tools for infants.

There are many concepts introduced but few are repeated and most are introduced quickly and dissapear quickly. There is also little continuity between concepts. It doesn't seem to me that these videos are based on any research on how infants learn from television but, even so, the videos sure do make rather bold educational claims. I am sorry to say that these videos are not "a breakthrough in infant development" as they say, but yet another spin-off of the toys-moving-to-music format.

Some of the moving toys attracted my infants attention but I don't agree that these videos are learning tools. Maybe for a toddler but not an infant. For many infants these videos will be nothing but a fancy mobile - and there's nothing wrong with that.