Baby Einstein - Baby Neptune - Discovering Water [DVD]

I had purchased Baby Mozart for my 4th child when he was 6 months old. He always enjoyed this video. When my 5th child was born we shared the video with her. She enjoyed it with the same enthusiam as her brother did. At 9 months I decided she needed some more of these videos...some variety. I selected Baby Einstein next. I really didnt compare it to all of the others before purchase...I wish I had. We enthusiastically put it in and my daughter did not react as enthusiastically as she always had with Baby Mozart. The language was boring in comparison to all the music and unique sounds on Baby Mozart. Immediately we purchased Baby Bach and my daughter was delighted! We alternate between Baby Bach and Baby Mozart, which are similar, but different. Ocasionally I will put Baby Einstein in for a change of pace. After reading the various reviews, I look forward to receiving other videos in the series to give my children a wider range of variety.

Well... the Baby Einstein Company has done it again... yet another top notch video to add to their collection. I have been a die hard Baby Einstein fan for 2 1/2 years now, as my twins are that old! Although the video is rated for ages 9 months and up, I am confidant that a smaller baby would love the visuals here. Baby Neptune is all about water. From the ocean, to rivers and lakes, to tub time, to a jaunt in the back yard with a garden hose, to tooth brushing time, Baby Neptunes got it all. There is even a section on beaches that covers sand castle building, and some exploration in a tidal pool. The hosts of the show are a turtle and duck - the same line of bath puppets used in most of their other videos. There is minimal computer animation here, which is a typical trademark of the Baby Einstein Company, who promotes the real world object theory that kids relate best to things they know and see in the world around them. There are children throughout the video, and as one other reviewer so rudely noted, I dont think they are offensive to watch! In fact, I dont believe that any of Julie Clarks own children are even in this video. That is a shame, as my son has a major crush on Aspen and Sierra! The children that are present here only add to the personal and real world feeling of this video. There are also various brightly colored toys intersperced into the video for added visual affect (think Baby Mozart). The show is choreographed to a wonderful selection of stimulating yet soothing classical music, so its easy on parents ears if your child chooses to watch it 10 times in a row! For extra fun, there is an aquarium bonus feature (DVD only) where you can watch a nice man feeding a bunch of fish in the Colorado Aquarium. I give this 5 stars..you just cant loose with this one. Enjoy!

I had heard great things about the whole series of these videos, so I purchased this one...unfortunatly. It is just a bunch of foreign language babble...I would have thought they would have at the very least, had subtitles so the parents could explain to their children what was being said. The pictures on the screen didnt even correspond with what was being said (I know this from when they would talk in English). At one point they were counting in different languages and taking away blocks...but they would only take away 1 block for every 4 or 5 numbers....would be real confusing for a child learning to count. We didnt even watch the whole thing...only made it about 15 minutes through and my daughter hadnt even so much as glanced up at it...not to mention my complete disapointment in it. If I were to do something of this nature I would have, for instance, showed a picture of a horse...and said the word horse in all the different languages...that way you know what is being said. I dont know what good it does to just hear different languages being babbled, if you have no idea or indication as to what is being said. I would NOT recomend this to anyone.

I bought this one on used VHS at a consignment store, and would not have paid more than $3 for it. Once again Baby Einstein has a great idea and misses the opportunity to make something both fun and truly educational. The visual quality of the video is beautiful, and the puppets are cute, but its not educational. Whoever designed this video did not have a solid understanding of how children learn language. This is a major flaw with BE products that are supposed to be educational, but they do a poor job with concept development. For example, they only pair word and visual image once per segment. This DVD has a loose structure, for which each segement is meant to help a child develop concepts of various forms of waters--rivers, oceans etc, but the makers failed to align images, words, and puppet shows in such a fashion as would allow someone who had no experience with these things to develop a working understanding of what features make a river a river, or an ocean an ocean. Many of the images selected seem to have almost nothing to do with the chosen theme of a segment, or are related in such a way that only an adult or older child who already has a working understanding of the topic would understand. Same goes for the puppet shows. They tend to involve humor or situations that are far out of the realm of a pre-verbal babys experience. I wish Baby Einstein would bring in psychologists or educators when they design their products. Buy it as something you can put in to soothe your baby, but dont be fooled into thinking youre educating them. They will learn much more in the bathtub or pool.

My 9 month old daughter who loooooves Baby Eienstein videos totally hates this one. I dont know why but this one simply was a total waste of money. Whatever their formula is that makes babies love these videos was lost on this one. It is well known among other moms that this is the one to stay away from.

This DVD is wonderful. My 20 month old daughter is absolutely fascinated by this DVD. It is beautifully filmed and the characters are colorful and entertaining. The music is refreshing and its so easy to follow. This DVD would not be enjoyed by a 12-15 month old though. I think it should be for 18m+. Buy it, you will not be disappointed. Also the DVD extras are great...the aquarium and activities are even stimulating! A++++

This is our favorite of the Baby Einsteins series. It has beautiful underwater scenes of octopus and jellyfish. The music is soothing. The puppets are fun. Our 8-month-old baby is mesmerized by this video. Her favorite parts seem to be the otters and turtles swimming in the rivers. In addition, this video gives you many opportunities to interact with your child.

get this on DVD it has so many interactive features and it has repeat play for continuous play they can fall asleep to, and there is none of that screaming when the video stops instead you can shut it off when they are not interested. And the learning flash cards in nine languages is a must have. GET THE DVD

We just got this video last night and my two children (ages 3 years and 21 months) want to watch it over and over and over! They didnt want to go to bed last night as they were so excited over this. They dont want to play in the beautiful sunshine today because they want to watch this video. I have had to turn it off just to get them to do something else. Another hit from Baby Einstein. I personally dont care as to whether it is the same or different from earier videos . . . what I care about is whether or not my children like it whether or not we can talk about it. Both criteria were well met by this video!

This one has failed to keep my kids attention for some reason. Its difficult to figure out why - its the same format as Baby Mozart, Baby Bach, Baby Van Gogh - but for some reason, this one doesnt work for him. Musically, its not as good as the more musical-intensive ones (Mozart, Bach) - but of the Baby Einstein series videos that weve seen - the namessake video has been the biggest dud of em all.