Baby Einstein – Baby Mozart – Music Festival [DVD]

Kind of amazing
I don’t know if this is educational or helps your baby to learn as some might claim, but babies are definately very interested in it. I actually was showing it to my mother while she stayed with us. I thought it was pretty neat. I happened to be holding my daughter who was about a week old at the time. She was actually interested in looking at it. Of course, you have to put her pretty close to the screen, but she finds it neat.At her age, some parts are more interesting than others. Doesn’t care at all about the parts with puppets, but stares at the ones with fast moving, brightly colored things.It is actually a little freaky. You almost wonder if there’s some sort of subliminal brainwashing going on where Disney is really telling them to demand visits to the theme parks in the future. Ha.Still….our daughter could watch it from a week old and found it interesting.UPDATE: I see that I wrote this when my daughter was 2 weeks old. She is now 17 months old and I think I have a different perspective on this. We bought a lot of dumb things for her when she was first born and this is one. Here’s a news flash for everyone: Kids like to watch television! This isn’t a magic product. Kids are just about as interested in a football game with all the colored jerseys running around, not to mention anything on the Disney channel. Or, just point them at the TV and flip the channels. I’m not saying this is a terrible product, but I think that in my sleep deprived early fathergood days, I assigned this product some mystical properties that it didn’t deserve.

Just like I remember
Bought for my son to use with his first child. It is just as I remember watching with him in 2000!!

We’ve only used the “Theatre” section, but we like it
There are several parts to this DVD — a musical theatre, concert series and language lab. We have only used the musical theatre because my son is only 3 months old and the other parts are not as useful yet (we have lots of just plain music for him, too).He enjoys watching the cute toys and figures moving and listening to the music in the musical theatre section. I won’t say he just swoons over it, but he pays attention and is quite for the 25 minute “show”. I have to pick the right time to use this. Sometimes we watch together and I describe the toys to him. Other times I just let him watch and take a break. Either way, its a nice change of pace. He watches it one way or another about 3-5 times per week.The language lab is a little slow paced for a baby who cannot possibly understand that he is even learning words. He doesn’t even know what a dog is in English, much less 8+ other languages. I look forward to using it later, though, to expose him to the sounds of other languages. Maybe when he is 6 or 9 months…

No Einstein’s here
After swearing that I would adhere to the pediatrician’s recommendation to keep my son away from the TV until he was two, I broke down and ordered the oh-so touted Baby Einstein DVD for my 4 month old. After all, I needed time to do things around the house and my son is not a napper.Well, after 5 minutes of watching the video with my son, I was horribly motion sick and he was completely uninterested. I mean he literally glanced at it 2 or 3 times and promptly looked away. And why wouldn’t he? The video is stupid–bad closeups of cheap crap that someone decided would hold the attention of a baby? Backrounded by horrible renditions of classical music classics.Do yourself a favor, buy a REAL Mozart CD, put it on and click on the Weather Channel. The moving maps and quick graphics hold my son’s attention, and show him the states and cities on top of that. He might acutally learn something in that hour rather than be “entertained” by really bad graphics and cheap objects on a black screen.

Hopefully this will keep my 6 month old Grandson quiet in the car.

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