Children/Family

Top Pick. Oh, we just love this new made-for-babies video offering by the studio of Start Smarter, Winner of Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Children’s Products! It's not as polished as some, but it's filled with excellent learning opportunities. Words, such as on and bubbles, are spelled out using alphabet blocks, voiced clearly, used in sentences, and then demonstrated in clever ways. Classical music provides the audio backdrop for playful puppet sequences and fascinating objects. Start Smarter Relax & Learn is filled with fun sound effects, such as a giggling baby, and amusing sequences. Vocabulary words are repeated frequently by both adult and child narrators. Plenty of entertaining peek-a-boo scenes and other surprises are added for extra fun. We love the musical selection featured in Start... Less

Home sounds, animal sounds, big and little sounds, people sounds, and musical sounds all share time in this 30-minute educational--and entertaining-- video. Outdoor shots of roaring rivers, a train chugging through town, and jackhammers tearing up a sidewalk are interspersed with sounds captured on a simple indoor set (like kids sneezing, laughing, playing drums) and in someone's house (where telephones ring, babies cry, and blenders whir). A pleasant narrator adds to the experience by conversing with the audience with simple phrases like This is the sound of a blender. Sometimes it can be loud. As with the other thoughtfully conceived videos in the Baby's First Impressions series, the makers seem to have as much fun taking viewers from scene to scene as they do presenting their... Less

Release Date: 1998-08-20, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Box set includes three DVDs from the Praise Baby Collection Series: Praises And Smiles, God Of Wonder, and Born To Worship. The Praise Baby Collection is the highly acclaimed video series that creates a nurturing environment for your baby's spiritual and intellectual development. Features worship music and fun interactive video for baby's spirit and mind. Combines popular praise and worship songs with images of children enjoying God's creation, colorful animation and real world objects.

Little Steps: Baby Smart Start Baby Smart Start: Introduces soothing Classical Music Stimulates vision with High Contrast, Black, white and red images Uses Large geometric shapes easily recognized by infants Helps train tracking, focusing and attention span Little Steps: Baby Smart Start For Babies Ages 0 to 2 Years Little Steps, Making Big Strides in Baby Education! Awaken your baby's senses with Baby Smart Start, introducing bright colors and geometric shapes that move and dance to the rhythm and beat of six carefully selected classical music pieces, attracting and holding the attention of developing infants. Baby Smart Start Images and Classical Music Enhance baby s learning with this first-of-its-kind video created specifically to stimulate infants visually and audibly. Baby Smart... Less

For Ages: 8 months to 5 years Identifies six basic shapes that every child loves. This video utilizes strong, bold colors and black & white patterns.