Customer Reviews

JumpStart Toddler

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is the only computer software my now almost 3 year old daughter has been able to thoroughly enjoy for the past year and a half. I had tried other software that was geared for older children (preschool or kindergarten) and they were way out of her range. So, on a whim, I picked up this title at toys r us while shopping for other items. My version is actually "Jumpstart Advanced Preschool" for ages 1 1/2 to 4 years. It consists of 4 CDs, one of which is "Jumpstart Toddler". This CD is affectionately known in our house as "Tickle Duckie" since that's what my daughter has grown to call "Dedee" the duck who is the star of most of the games. I credit this software to teaching my daughter her shapes, colors, and alphabet all at an early age... she had loads of fun playing all these games. She is now, at almost 3 years, just starting to grow out of these games. I just installed the "Jumpstart Preschool Fundamentals" CD on my pc and will see how she does with that now, but I'm sure "Tickle Duckie" will still be a favorite of hers.

I purchased this game for my son as a Christmas gift! He will be 2 in a few months and really has a lot of fun playing it. The games are easy enough that if you you can move a mouse you can play most of them. The skill level does vary so, I am sure that as his skills improve he will be able to play more of the games. Over all a GREAT product!!!!

This is by far the best computer game that I have found for toddlers. It practices colors, shapes, letters, numbers, mouse control, and new words. The writers of this game really understood how a toddler uses the computer. The game makes every button on the keyboard a good button to push. Something always will happen! This games was written before the "start" keyboard button, so that will still bring up the start menu in Windows. All other buttons have their functions changed to fit the game. Even the ESC key is good!

It is also good that games can use either mouse or keyboard (except one game about mouse control). The buttons will cause all of the fun things to happen as well as clicking on the picture.

Highly recommended! My toddler enjoyed it from about 17 months.

This is not bad software, but it is old and out of date which is reflected in the quality of the graphics, sound, and animation. It's still a viable set of activities for toddlers, but there are better ones. For example, the fisher-price.com website has a free "ABC Zoo" with better graphics and sound than the one on this CD. The same is true for the musical instrument activity. Besides that, it is short on activities overall compared to the latest Reader Rabbit Toddler. Adventure Workshop Toddler, which includes Reader Rabbit and 3 other CD's has several dozen more activities, all with superior sound and graphics. For the value offered, Jump Start would be a good deal at $3.

This is some of the best $$$ I've ever spent. My child has spent hours in front of the computer with this. I've gotten so much accomplished around the house while he's learned all his letters, his numbers, phonics, and more. There are a couple games that he needs the mouse for, but even before he was ready for the mouse, he could play the games and entertain himself with the keyboard. It has also taught him how to use a computer...gently! This is one of our favorite things!

This software is used in a self contained classroom with Autistic students. They all love this software and I need another copy of it.

I've watched both of my Grandaughters start with this software, and they just love it. Both were two years when they started using it, and in a matter of weeks we could let them alone and just watch the improvements in both. Hand-eye with the mouse, recognition of the animals, and the areas they loved the most. I've bought it for all our grand kids, and recommend it very much.

This cd has a lot of repetition, I personally think it has too much music to it, everything is connected to a song of some type. My 2 and 4 yr old love it. They have learned quite a bit from the cd. My 2 yr old more so in regards to recognizing his ABC's and numbers, and the 4 yr old on revisiting it all.

this was really simplistic and my toddler did not enjoy it. the program does most of the work so its not teaching as much as I would like. I would recommend for someone just starting to let their kids use the computer but it will not hold their attention for long. reader rabbit for baby and toddler is a much better investment.

My daughter (2 yrs, 3 months old) LOVES this program. We have an old laptop we allow her to bang on. She has learned to use the mouse quite accurately in the month or so that we've had this program installed. She can't yet click the mouse button but most of this program only requires hovering over certain areas so that isn't an issue. We just need to buy her a (very small) laptop mouse instead of the big clunky one we have attached.
She sings along with singing and has started counting, learning her ABC's, colors, all the things I should have been teaching her but never seem to have the patience or time for. It's the amount of progress she's made in the one month we've had it that just really amazes us. So far she's not gotten bored with the program even though she plays with it a LOT.
I would have bought this much sooner if I'd known about it. My husband's coworker was raving about it and he told me so I thought I'd give it a try.