Customer Reviews

Fundamentals

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I watched this DVD with my two sons, ages 4 years and 6 mos. My younger son was entertained by the Starlets and I even caught him laughing when something on the screen delighted him. (Incidentally, I've tried a Baby Einstein or two with both my babies and they never seemed to enjoy them. So I was so pleasantly surprised to see the positive reaction with Fundamentals.) My 4 year old son was equally entranced with the DVD and watched it 3x in one sitting. He is working at preschool on putting concepts together (two red cars, three blue carts, etc.) and having that reiterated was very interesting to him.

I think that this is a terrific DVD for kiddos to learn in so many ways. The sing-song repetition and the friendly narrator are inviting as well so the kids stick with it and inevitably learn through this unique method. I highly recommend this DVD to help children understand more about this wonderful world of ours.

I bought this DVD for my 2 and 3 year old boys and was very impressed. It's not flashy and polished, but it effectively teaches the basics (shapes, colors, large and small, letters etc.) My boys were not only watching, but also interacting. We just received it today and I'm looking forward to playing it for them once a day.

Based on the reviews, I purchased this DVD and was really diappointed. Like a lot of the reviews I felt that my son was getting a little beyond the Baby Einstein DVDs. This DVD is really unpolished and the women in the upper left hand corner is really distracting for my son. Additionally, the pace is a bit fast. By this I mean that the woman in the upper left hand corner of the screen repeats what's going on in the screen but she does it really fast and the item in the main screen is flashed. I'm pretty quick, but watching the DVD with my child I though the items were flashing quickly so I can only imagine that my child wasn't getting it either. Five minutes into it, my son got up and left. Such a disappointment and a waste of money. The preschool prep DVDs are so much better, but unfortunately there are only 3 of them (shapes, numbers and letters).

This video was fantastic. My son who is 3 1/2 years old loves it and has learned so much information from it. The sophisticated use of vocabulary is brilliant. I am so happy to find something out there that gives a toddler and infant the credit for being able to understand and express themselves in an elegant and ambitious way. It is wonderous when a child discovers a whole new language.

This video was especially good for my son who had some hearing issues and the woman speaking and enunciating in the corner (Melissa) was invaluable to him and to his understanding of the material. Children have different learing styles and respond to a variety of techniques, I believe that this video catered perfectly to both the oral and visual approaches in learning.

My child asks for me to play it again and again. Thank you so much for creating an insightful, creative, stimulating and fun video for him to watch.

I credit Fundamentals for helping my daughter's speech problem. She was almost 2 years old and she did not talk that much. Thanks to the video, which she liked since the first time she watched it, her ability to talk increased very quickly. She started to say more words and also to recognize shapes, colors, letters, and numbers.

Since I found the video very helpful, I gave one to my sister as a gift for my nephew. She first showed it to him when he was 1 1/2 months. He loved it. At first he watched for five minutes at a time. She played the video for him every day, and three months later he could watch it all. This is the only video that he can watch from start to finish without getting tired, and it is her son's favorite video. My nephew also likes the narrator, smiles at her, and tries to talk to her and repeat what she says. My sister said it is really helpful for her too, because while he watches the video she is able to cook and take a shower.

We are anxiously awaiting the next video.

I have a three year old girl and a one year old boy and they were both captivated by the video. More importantly, my daughter was engaging with the video and kept wanting to watch it more and more. It is a far better product than the Baby Einstein videos, and I've seen them all. Please make more!

Baby's First from The First Wave series is by far the most comprehensive educational video available to babies & Toddlers!
Both my 3 1/2 year old and 2 year old enjoy watching it. Their eyes are glued to the screen! They especially love the STAR characters and laugh and dance when the stars dance to the music!

I am a Baby Einstein Fan and both of my children watched their videos regularly up until about age Two. I wish this video was available when they were younger! They hardly watch any of the Baby Einstein's anymore but both really enjoyed this video. My son enjoyed watching a little boy [Myles] and my two year old daughter enjoyed watching the baby [Lita] - she smiled every time Lita came on screen!

What I like about the video is the way it covers great information not regularly seen on other baby videos. I like how it covered body parts; I have not seen that in other videos and
directions (R, L, diagonal, horizontal, etc). The phonics section is terrific, I can see how it is already helping my two year old to form & speak words correctly and will help lay the foundation for my 3 1/2 year old to learn to read.
I especially like the idea of having the box with Melissa Neumann as the teacher on the screen throughout the entire video speaking to the audience. It gives a personal instructional style to this video that I have not seen in others and my children seem to respond well to it.

I'm very impressed! This is a great product, I highly recommend it! A+!

I own every Baby Einstein, Sesame Street, Dora, Disney etc etc video under the sun, and this is far-and-away my son's favorite one. He is just starting to speak, and he tries to mouth the letters of the alphabet along with the narrator. He also plays along when the video does body parts, and loves to go get his pots and pans from the kitchen when the narrator goes through the rooms in the house (including the kitchen). I can see that he is actually LEARNING from this video, and not just being distrated by colors, shapes and sounds.

i bought this for my daughter for christmas along with a sesame street dvd. she is 10 months old and as soon as i put this dvd on she stops whatever she is doing and watches the whole movie. she is a very active baby and never still from the time she wakes up untill she goes to sleep except when this dvd is on. she wont watch the sesame street one for more that a minute before she crawls off to play. i only let her watch it once a day becacuse i dont want her in front of a tv all day. it seems a little fast pase for children that young so i hope she is learning while watching i havent seen her do anything like point to her eyes or ears and name them yet but maybe it will come. i have a 3 year old niece who also likes to watch. i would recomed this video

Great Video has a variation and teach several things just the woman is speaking too fast. But my child like it.