Customer Reviews

So Smart - Letters

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So Smart! is a series of award-winning videos and music, specially designed for young minds. Organized around fundamental subjects, So Smart! introduces babies and toddlers to shapes, letters, colors, music, foreign language, and more.

I purchased my first So Smart video (Volume 1) when my son was around 6 months old. One night, my son woke up in the middle of the night screaming. Nothing I tried settled him down. Exhausted, I finally brought him in bed with us, turned on the TV and VCR, pushed the Play button, and turned on the So Smart! video. After a few minutes, my baby started watching the video and immediately stopped crying. He was mesmerized by the simple objects and soothing music. He sat in my arms (at 3 a.m!) and quietly watched the video for 30 minutes. I was astonished (and pleasantly surprised.) It was a god-send!

I immediately ordered two other So Smart! videos and was equally impressed. By watching So Smart! Volume 3: All About Letters with my son, he could recognize most of the letters of the alphabet by the time he was one and-a-half. It was amazing!

Our son is now 3 years old, and everybody keeps asking us, "How do you teach him all this stuff" and I tell them about the So Smart! video series....

So Smart! videos are an interactive way for you to spend quality time with your little one. I highly recommend these award-winning products. The videos may seem simple and uninteresting to an adult, but they're just what a little mind needs to grow!

The viewer from Concord has it spot-on. The So Smart videos are simply the best -- there are no commercial tie-in's (like Baby Einstein), the music is classical and is not the toy-like sounding music that the Baby Einstein videos use. We play the So Smart videos sometimes during dinner because the music is the same you would hear by playing a CD or the radio, and our kids will watch while we listen and eat in peace. My oldest son also learned his alphabet from watching this video with me -- almost by accident. One day he just started telling ME what the letters were. Pass on the Baby Einstein -- So Smart is much better.

This is a great video for teaching letters. My daughter is 15 months old. She's watched the A-F portion of this video, maybe, 10 times and she can now say ABCDE & F. She is also starting to recognized a few of those letters. This video has great graphics and wonderful music.

This is one of my 17 month old's favorite videos. He asks to see it almost every day! Great way to teach beginning sounds (instead of the letter names, which can be learned after the sounds are learned)! Also great for beginning to recognize words. (So Smart: All about Shapes is very good, too!)

Great learning tool. Parents must participate. They tell the child the letters and the objects as they appear. My 16th month old already knows his letters and is starting to learn the sequence of the alphabet.

This is called a "moving board book" because you are supposed to watch it with your baby and talk about it; like you would if you sat down together to read a book. I love the music. Because there are no words spoken, the music is very noticable (not just like background music).

Here's basically how it works: for the letter B, the B slowly, piece by piece, turns into a flying bee and the letter B then reads Bee. For C there are puffy clouds that move and then you see that they really are coming from the exhaust pipe of a car. C for Car. For E an elephant walks on screen and then falling rectangular shapes fall from the sky and the elephant bounces them up with his trunk. They bounce up and fall into the shape of an E. One of my favorite Mozart pieces, "Turkish March" is played for the letter R. The R has little legs and feet and runs all over the screen.

This is a very cute video. I like that it is slower pace which gives kids time to let each thing sink in. Too many baby videos are flashy and too fast. I have reviewed all the other So Smart videos so please read those reviews also.

I showed my daughter section(s) of this dvd every Saturday morning for about 2 months. She can reconize and tell me letters A-Z since she was 18 month old. The key to sucessfully using this dvd is "Parent Participation". Like when the video introducing letter "B", and a Bee is flying on the screen, we play pretend as a bee "flying" around. It works like magic.
You may want to play the video in sections, like watch the first section (A-F) the first time, see how it goes. If baby is ready to move forward, play the first and second sections the next time.

My son is 2 and loves the letters video. He is picking up on it so quickly and is excited about it. I also love it because the background music is classical music and very relaxing. Great way to learn!

I bought this and several other dvd's for my 19 month old daughter, mainly to encourage speech development. She is so disinterested in this series; also purchased First Words and Colors. I think the animated graphics are cute and simple, but pace is too slow for my daughter. Perhaps she'll like them when she is older, but for now she prefers live-action dvd's. This series might appeal to infants before they become aware of their surroundings and prefer more relatable content.

This product says it's for kids under 2 but it didn't last 2 minutes with my twin 18-month-olds. I think this is a better choice for infants who might need a little visual stimulization, but seems boring for toddlers.