This “video board book” does a number of things very well. Considerable like a standard board book, it shows infants smart, high-contrast images. But this video version also plays soothing and sometimes spunky melodies. It also lets children hear speakers of more than half a dozen foreign languages, including Hebrew, Russian and Japanese.
This feature of the video is confusing to many parents of potential viewers. Will the video sigh junior to pronounce one of the foreign languages on the tape? Not exactly. Will it produce junior a limited Einstein? Not exactly. What honorable is it, then?
What the video DOES do is encourage the mind retain many of the nerve synapses in the brain which would otherwise be destroyed as the infant matures into a toddler.
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Imagine a Bonsai tree, of which some of its itsy-bitsy limbs and branches are trimmed because they are not useful to the tree as a whole. The body does the same thing to unused mental synapses sometime around the first and second years of life. And they don’t grow support.
Now believe about all the silly comedy scenarios you’ve seen where a Japanese tourist says something like, “Herro, I’m rooking for Horrywood, Carifornia.” Why do his Ls sound like Rs? Because there is NO “R” sound (phoneme) in the Japanese language. And because our tourist never heard that sound in his infancy, he cannot now, as an adult, discern it from the phonemically-similar “L” sound.
Infants hearing a variety of phonemes foreign to English-speaking people at this young age will keep the synapses that are sensitized (from birth) to these sounds. And this video does impartial that.
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So while the video will not mutter junior the foreign language, if he tries to learn the language later, he will have an easier time of it, because he will be sensitized to that language’s sounds. And while junior perhaps will not be an Einstein for watching, he will arrive away from the experience with more synapses in his brain than had he not watched.
Also be aware that none of this is pop psychology — it is well-researched and tested fact, taught in most undergraduate and graduate psychology, speech and linguistics classes today (Stare the producer’s Web position for details) .
Finally, as other reviewers have said better than I have, the video is a lot of fun for you and junior to study together! And perhaps THAT is the selling point for prospective parents who want the best for their diminutive ones.
Okay…I must admit that my son is a Baby Einstein junkie! He was very fussy until he was three-months-old and Baby Bach was literally the only thing that saved my sanity on some days. Now that he is past the one-year milestone, he has the entire Baby Einstein library. He particularly loves the Baby Dolittle tapes and will discover them again and again.
We were glad to eye a original title to add to our collection and waited patiently for the release date. I must say, I am a bit disappointed overall.
First, the video seems a lot shorter than the other ones. Maybe it’s because I bought the DVD this time and am former to the “commercial” at the extinguish of the tapes. My son insists on watching through to the “commercial” on the tapes, as even they acquire his attention.
Second, the swiftly editing is more MTV than Baby Einstein. Our children have dwindling attention spans as it is. Disney’s hands are ALL OVER this video. If you stare the Disney Channel, it’s the same feeling. More substance and less flash would do this video splendid. Also, Baby Neptune lacks the panache of, say, Vincent Van Goat (Baby Van Gogh) or Jane (World Animals) .
Last, it unprejudiced didn’t seem to possess my son’s attention like other Baby Einstein titles. Starting with Baby Beethoven, the novel narrate at Disney seems to have timorous the organic quality of the unique tapes. To be fair, I miss Sierra and Aspen on this tape. It helped with the “from my house to yours” feel of previous titles. The puppets also seem to be lacking in this video. The interaction of the puppets with other puppets or the children is charming on previous videos.
On a obvious label, I recommend the DVD for the recount play feature if for nothing else. I don’t stick my child in front of these tapes for hours at a time, but we often have them on in the background when we are playing together. Tranquil, when you need a video babysitter to score the dishes done, having this option is a lifesaver!
I gape forward to the Petite Einstein series in the works for older children. I judge these tapes will be a touchstone for my child’s generation, worthy like “School House Rock” or “Free To Be You And Me” was for mine.
