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Rating:  - Great kid's video...entertaining and educational
My 15 month old daughter loves this video! I first introduced it to her when she was 11 months old. She even learned a few signs soley from the video...without my intervention/assistance. She laughs with the puppet antics and enjoys seeing the kids doing things she does. My bachelor brother of 32 years even sings the theme song to her. It seems like some of the negative reviews focus on problems from the parent's perspective. Sure, there are some things that could be improved...like juice in the bottle when the baby signs "milk". In my opinion, this video is aimed at the kids and they enjoy it. My 4 year old nephew thinks its fun and is teaching his younger brother how to sign. What counts is that kids learn from this video! I also like it's reasonable price. I now use it as a gift at baby showers or for first birthdays.
Rating: - Wonderful introduction to your baby about sign language
Upon watching this video for the first time, my 20-month-old son, already an established signer, was hooked! Not only is this video great for beginning signers (and will appeal to the younger infant with its music, happy children and puppets) but wonderful for the advanced signer as well. When the video was over my son, Corbin, surprised me by immediately signing 'again.' He screamed with laughter at the silly antics of "Sunny Bunny" and danced to the music (even though I can't get him to dance to anything else). In addition to the demonstrated signs, there was lots of opportunity to sign other things in the video, like 'bunny,' 'apple' and 'dog.' He also learned two signs he didn't know before ('dance' and 'ball') and refined his 'cookie' sign. I can see this video as having a benefit to Corbin for a long time to come as a sign booster, a vocabulary builder and great entertainment, all in one package. The Parental Guide near the end of the video goes over basic suggestions to help parents get started signing with their babies and it sums up a lot of great information.
Rating:  - You Can Do Better.
This video is disappointing. Offering only 10 signs, an
adorable girl of about 3 or 4 signs each of (only) 10 signs. After she quickly and imprecisely shows the sign several times, a puppet takes over and performs a slow, little skit that demonstrates the object of the sign in some way. He puts a ball through a hoop for the word "ball," for instance. The actions of the puppet do not reinforce the sign, which isn't repeated, and only distracts the viewer from the sign the action illustrates. In one case of extreme sign confusion, an adult giving a baby a bottle of juice to demonstrate "milk!"This video borrows heavily from the Baby Einstein videos, which are designed to introduce children to art and music. If you're looking for a video for your toddler, I'd suggest sticking with the original Baby Einstein. If you want to learn sign language with your child, get Baby See 'n Sign.
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