Customer Reviews

Toddler Play And Learn (4 CD-ROM)

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Three words - "Piece Of Junk", "Don't Buy It" unless you'd rather have "Four New Coasters". Not at all user friendly - even to the computer literate. Content is not at all captivating to the young ones, hard to navigate and there is NO HELP! After I tried to play it for my kid, I thought at least one of the four CD's may have something worthwhile - no such luck! The only reason I gave it one star is because that is the lowest I can go!

I was extremely dissappointed by this software. My 2 year old son loves the computer and he loves to play games, however he just did not "get" these games. The box says it's supposed to be educational, but I just don't see how. I would not recommend this software to anyone with a toddler.

I bought this as the first software for my 2 year old. I can't even figure out how to use it. As the others have said, don't waste your money. There are no instructions with the materials.

This software was not intended for children. It is not user friendly, creative or stimulative... Not recommended for any teaching.

I thought that this package was basically a waste of money. My son has a minor speech problem, so we were able to use one of the disks for having him practice his speech. Other than that....it stunk.

The Bad you've already read in the other reviews. Here are the good points:
1. The musical CD included, "The Elephant in Aisle 4," is fun, enjoyable and addictive. It won't drive you crazy listening to it dozens of times, and is worth the money. It was the first children's CD among many that my 2 year old son started singing along with.
2. If you have two young children close in age, 2 and 4 in my case, you have some cheap options in software (... for 4 CDs). My two year old simply likes to be on the computer and doesn't have to be dazzled. He can manipulate BabyWow by himself.
3. Buddy the Paintbrush to me is hard to manipulate and is like getting stuck in a loopy maze. Having said that, my husband was rather fascinated by how well my 4 year old daughter has learned to mix the colors, and she can manipulate the software.
4. Smiletown is odd and surreal. It is also quite popular with my 4 year old. Regarding "buttocks", I could have done without it, but it's just another anatomical term that you're going to have to explain eventually anyway. Four years is not too tender an age to learn the correct terminology.
BOTTOM LINE: There is better software, but this quartet does deliver a decent bang for the buck.

Out of the four CD you receive, we are only pleased with the first CD. The others are either hard to figure out what you are supposed to do or it just brings you to other websites. not worth any money to purchase this CD. My daughter loves playing games on the computer and she never wants to play this one.

This is just terrible software. Can't really recommend for any child. There's nothing stimulating about it. Don't waste your money!

The reviews trashing this set of programs are dead-on. What waste of money. One CD-ROM contains almost nothing but an advertisement. The Smiletown CD is not cute, but creepy. The stiff unnatural freaky creatures it contains scared the heck out of my baby daughter. DO NOT BUY THIS.

Someone gave us 2 of the disks and I put our granddaughter on it and it captivated her. She was having problems with comprehension of the mechanics of the computer. Now she just gets into these and this is her second year of pre-school and wasn't learning any "letters" So this is helping tremendously. I don't have to stand over her now and I can get something done and she isn't watching cartoons all day. I have ordered the whole set and getting a set for another family of 3 boys who are beginning to learn computer.