Baby Einstein - Baby Neptune - Discovering Water [DVD]

This video is wonderful! I was sure that Jesica, being only 4 months old, would have no interest in this video as she doesnt with most everything else on television. But this video is very exciting to her. She will talk to the objects she sees. I am very proud to have this for her and look forward to getting Baby Bach and Baby Mozart to switch them out for variety.

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!

I bought Baby Einstein for my 9-month-old and was very disappointed with it -- its going back to the store in exchange for Baby Mozart! My daughter has Baby Bach and loves it, all the music and sounds and activity really fascinate her, so I had high hopes for the Baby Einstein video. But we found that the extremely slow pace, lack of music, and simplistic images in Baby Einstein were boring to her. I suppose it depends on your childs personality, and it might be great for younger babies, but our active girl wasnt interested at all.

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 daughter loved this video the first time she saw it and she continues to watch it all the way through even after a year. We got this one for her before her first birthday and she is almost two now. She has learned all of the words presented on the video in addition to what we have shown her. We have several of the Baby Einstein DVDs and this is one of our favorites.

My 16 month daughter recently received this as a gift. Its not her favorite, but its close. She loves watching the puppets and the different ways they interact with the water. Shell actually sit and watch the whole thing. Amazing! A great addition to the Baby Einstein library.

Great for giving Mom a break. I gave this as a gift to my girlfriend who is a new Grandmother. She is very happy.

My child cries when I put this one in. He hates the animated dancing crayons. Let me just say that these movies have such an appeal to babies because, in the exact words of Julie Clark, they capture the sights and sounds of babys real world. I dont know about you, but there are no computer animated, singing and dancing crayons in my childs real world. I think Disney forgot that the simplicity of these movies is what makes them so loveable. Pass on this one and stick with the earlier versions (before Disney took over)My child adores Bach, Mozart and both the Dolittles.

My baby started watching this when he was 3 months old and just loves it! I wish I had gotten it even sooner! It shows bright colorful images which really caught his attention. Counting and nursery rhymes are recited in numerous foreign languages. After watching it for just a few days, he recognized certain parts and he smiled, laughed and screeched in delight! A month later I began repeating the nursery rhymes and counting and he thought that was great too. Julie Clark, the creator of this video, had taped her daughter on this video at the end and I think my son is in love with her, he always smiles when she appears. She has put out 2 other videos called Baby Bach and Baby Mozart which are also fabulous! No, Im not getting paid to write this, its just that my son enjoys these so much I just had to share my opinion. He is 8 months old now and still loves them! The price of the video on www.amazon.com is great, I paid a lot more for them at the mall.

Ive always been very curious about these Baby Einstein videos and saw one at my friends house a few months ago. I thought it was boring and so did my friends 1 year old daughter because she fell asleep. Since I have a 3 month old, I thought Id purchase the Language Nursery to expose my daughter to other languages. I would think that as the other languages are being spoken, there would be some English subtitles. I know the video isnt supposed to be teaching me foreign languages but what good is it if you keep hearing different languages but are totally clueless and to what is being said. My opinion is that these Baby Einstein videos arent going to boost my childs IQ so I wont be adding any more to my DVD collection. Another reviewer said these videos are as fun to watch as it is to watch paint dry. I agree.