Baby Einstein - Baby Wordsworth - First Words - Around the House [DVD]

Im still learning. Not sure if its just me or what but this is really advanced for the suggested age group.

In an effort to get an early start on teaching Words, I have selected Baby Einstein because my grand daughter is mesmerized by the music, tone and bright colors. Seriously when we try to video call with her, she keeps watching TV if the video is on.

This is a great product! I bought it for my nephew and he was already signing a few words after the first time we watched it. The music and children in the video kept his attention.

the movie its self is OK not the best baby einstein but it drives me crazy that after you go through the whole menu and push play there is a 5 min commercial about little enisteins!!! If you want to do something like that, do it when the dvd first starts.

My 20 month old daughter has been watching this for a few months now and absolutely loves it. I really wasnt expecting her to get much out of this other than just spending time together. I had never purchased any other Baby Einstein DVDs before and was fairly skeptical about its benefits. I figured that the least it could do was provide me with another way to interact with her and talk about what was on the screen. Sure enough she picked up on the signs very quickly and now signs many of the words on the DVD. In turn, I think thats helped broaden her verbal vocabulary as well. Its really fun to watch her enjoy it and learn from it.

I confess to being a bit amazed at the quality of the product. With the Disney money and a talented actress involved, I was amazed at what they offer. Look - I am absolutely fascinated by the baby signing movement and was anticipating something extraordinary, given the resources behind it, but it is pretty basic that if you are interested in babies learning to sign, it would be useful to consider the world from the babys point of view. So where do words such as puzzle and computer come from? Pity! If you want the gold standard, have a look at My Baby Can Talk for your baby.

love it

We expose our babies/toddlers to a wide variety of cultural sources, in several languages. Therefore, having seen similar products it seemed logical to purchase this one, given it is touted as a multilingual introduction to their environment (our little ones are trilingual: English, Spanish and ASL, and they ignore us in all them!). Big mistake. The video not only reinforces but solidifies the sexist portrayal of love so prevalent in other Baby Einstein (BE) items. In earlier BE products one could see only female hands manipulating objects as they presented them on screen. Male hands were never present. This video goes many steps furhter by featuring male figures only in the background, or at best, an elderly man briefly interacting with a child. Everywhere else you see multiple females lovingly playing, caring or otherwise being nurturing to children. Males are only seen (with the exception of a black couple in bed while kids jump to play with them) in a distant background in entirely detached attitudes, or at least distant, dry and quiet poses, such as talking with a much older (male) child. It is as if they are shown there as part of the domestic landscape, however as movable and inane as potted plants, whom you can move and place at will. I felt insulted by this condescending and disqualifying view of male love and nurturing abilities. Asides, when you go into the Spanish version, it is (for a professionally produced video) riddled with mistakes. Three objects are mislabeled. In the first, when a cup - the plastic or paper tall type , not the coffee and saucer version, it is called la taza, when in reality it should be el vaso, as unlike English, where it is interchangeable vaso is the specific word for that item. The second - much worse instance, still in the kitchen was to introduce a bowl. There, the clueless scripter translated it as el bol, a clear and poor corruption of the English word into a one commonly used in Spanglish, instead of calling it tazon, as its correct name is. The last one I saw was in the yard (Im suprised they didnt call it la yarda!: Looka mami! get la troca and go a la marketa a buy a boncha de carrotas!). This time they called an obvious swing (two ropes and a seat in between) la hamaca, when in reality hamaca means hammock. Fortunately, we are native speakers amnd are abel to catch these pitfalls, but many people relies upon these products to teach their kids other languages. In sum I was discusted with the whole thing.

we had a lot of trouble getting our little girl to talk and this dvd has really helped her identify words with objects. I love the sign language and pictures presented in such a great way. This is a great product. I would highly recommend all of the Baby Einstein products to new parents. They really are great teaching tools for you and baby. =)

Most of the Einstein tapes/DVDs bored my daughter but this one is 5*. She began to talk and communicate more after viewing this-this was really her introduction to language. Very educational and delivered where other Baby Einstein tapes/DVDs did not!