Customer Reviews

Meet the Colors

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With the AAP guidelines on television viewing for children under two, many people worry about allowing a baby or toddler to watch any videos at all. I think it's fairly safe to say that this particular video is not going to increase a child's risk of ADD/ADHD. (I write this as someone who watches no television at all herself and allows her son to watch one age-appropriate, short DVD per day.) There is no fast cutting. There is no fast movement. There is nothing in this video that could remotely be called over-stimulating. This video is probably more sedate than regular playing in the living room. I can't stand to sit through it.

And yet, my 16 month old son loves it. He asks for this video by name--"Coh! Coh! [meaning Colors! Colors!]" He loves to call out the names of the colors when they slowly walk onto the screen.

Educational, enjoyable (for my son), and not, I think, a contributor to a short attention span--that's a home run in my book.

Our children learned their Letters, Numbers and Shapes from the other videos by this company so we didn't hesitate to buy Meet the Colors. It did not dissapoint! Our 18 month old daughter watched it once a day for about 2 weeks and could name all the colors easily. She is now so fascinated with colors that everyone she goes, she is pointing out anything and everything and telling me its color. I highly reccomend this and any other product from this company.

Of all the "Meet the ..." DVDs, this one is the weakest only because the authors chose to exclude some popular colors. My daughter is indignant that the color "pink" is missing, and my son wonders where "brown" went. It's a good DVD for toddlers, but preschoolers will likely already know all the colors that are presented. The quality of content is on par with the rest of the DVD series so I would recommend it for 1 and 2 yr-olds.

my daughter (18 months) loved the vide; it is very well done, suited her attention span, and interesting for her age, on top of all that she learned the colors in less than a week.

I really like the idea of this DVD. Teaches a basic concept - colors, in a format that won't overstimulate.

Each color is introduced, one at at time, and the only words spoken are those colors. For example, the fuzzy yellow thing comes on and you hear "yellow, yellow . . . yellow, yellow, yellow . . . yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow . . . yellow, yellow." Repeat with blue, black, white, green, etc. It eventually robs you of your will to live.

This is a great movie to borrow from the public library, or your friend. Just don't buy it, because you can't watch it more than a handful of times.

When I first put the DVD in and pressed play the first images that came up made my 17 month-old daughter scream with joy. She seemed very excited and sat happily to watch the rest. What followed was simply bizarre. I left the room to check on dinner and all I heard from the living room was a woman's voice saying "yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow,yellow." I went back in to check on her and sit with her and I watched a little more of it before my daughter looked at me like I've gone crazy for making her sit through this. The screen featured a little "creature" in the color she was meant to learn and the overall colors on the screen were dominated by that same color. There was some animation and "activity" going on but not much. Someone mentioned in his review that it's basically "brainwashing" and it certainly does feel like that.

However, this is not meant for parents who think they can use shortcuts through DVDs to take their place and teach their children something. This is just another tool in your arsenal (mixed metaphor?). Use it like a tool and it's good, use it like a substitute for parenting and it's nothing more than brainwashing. I took my daughter to the park after the DVD (the next day) and she immediately went up to the disabled parking spots (the ones marked with the blue handicapped sign on the ground) and she pointed to the blue lines and said something like "boo" (I'm assuming meant to be "blue"). But this isn't a direct result of the DVD only. I've been working with her for a while through books, clothes, pictures, signs on the street and the rest. Whenever we see letters I read them to her, numbers I count for her, colors I teach to her. This DVD is good for clearing up the confusion when I say "Blue A" if she points at her bathtub letters where there's a letter A in blue. It will help differentiate the distinction between which part is "blue" and which part is "A."

So, yes, it does seem like brainwashing(and it made me dream of a lady saying the names of colors repetitively, which was annoying) but as another tool in the box I like it. I do, however, think they could have added more animation and music to it to make interesting. While she sits there watching she might be learning something but it doesn't capture her interest enough to want to sit through much of it.

While I get that repetition is key in helping young children to learn new concepts the *only* words ever spoken in this entire DVD are color words. Think, "Red, red, red, red, red..." Because of the latter I think this DVD will only work for extremely young children. My 2 year old was amused for a few minutes and then he began to get a bit creeped out and did not much appreciate the fact that these fuzzy little creatures walked around just saying their color names. So, under 2 years old and a kiddo might like it but over 2? No way.

This video is very, very boring. It does not keep my daughter's attention for more than 2 minutes..max. I have had it for about 2 weeks and I put it on at some point everyday thinking maybe she is picking up information even though she doesn't seem to be paying attention. So far, she doesn't seem to be absorbing any of the the repetetive information. I will keep trying for another month or so, then I will put it in the "Spring Garage Sale" pile.

This video merely spits out the name of the color over and over again (no other dialogue other than color names) with images of the little "animals" displayed in that color. These little animals also do activities with that color, such as painting. Its extremely monotonous and due to this, it did not hold my son's attention (nor did it hold the attention of many of his peers). To be honest, even I would not want to be forced to sit through watching this video. This is not worth the money for toddlers.

I Love this!
I was amazed, my nephew learned how to say the colors in less than a week and in a month he learned all of his colors and the distinguish them. I'm buying him the whole collection today.