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Bee Smart Baby, vocabulary Builder 2 [VHS] by Baby BumbleBee
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Product detailsActor: Animals Lots of Kids, Fun! Director: Baby BumbleBee Edition: VHS Tape Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Color, NTSC Running Time: 30 minutes Release Date: 1999-09-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Publisher: Baby Bumblebee Studio: Baby Bumblebee
VHS Movie Reviews of Bee Smart Baby, vocabulary Builder 2 [VHS]Movie Review: Best Baby Show To Date Summary: 5 StarsThis entire Baby Bumblebee series is excellent for babies aged 3 months to 3 years. Babies love to see and hear other kids and other babies on the television with the objects and names of things that they are learning. The music is catchy for babies and young toddlers as well. My infant son started watching these videos at around 4 months of age when we purchased the entire set. At 15 months, he still watches every second of Baby Bumblebee DVDs intently anytime they are on. He got interested in the following Baby Bumblebee DVDs a little later than the rest: Words Around the House, Question Words, and Olivia and Otis...all interested him at around the age of 1. Now those titles hold his attention completely just as much as the instantly-loved-when-he-was-younger titles in the Baby Bumblebee series. He now loves all the Baby Bumblee DVDs at age 15 months, except for Motorized Madness, which he hates.
We Ordered Entire Baby Bumblee Set:
* Baby Bumblebee Vocabulary 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
* Baby Bumblebee Action Words 1, 2, & 3
* Baby Bumblebee Words Around the House (3 separate disks)
* Baby Bumblebee Question Words
* Baby Bumblebee Opposites
* Baby Bumblebee Olivia and Otis
* Baby Bumblebee Crazy for Colors
* Baby Bumbebee 123's (disks 1 & 2)
* Baby Bumblebee ABC's
* Baby Bumblebee Motorized Madness
At Age 3 Months & Up My Baby Loved:
* Vocab 1-5
* Action Words 1-3
* Crazy for Colors (this was especially a favorite)
* ABCs
* 123s (disk 1 and 2)
* Opposites (another favorite)
At Age 1 Year & Up My Baby Loved:
Words Around the House (3 disks) (now a favorite)
Question Words (now a favorite)
Olivia and Otis (now a favorite)
Note to all: My baby has never liked Baby Bumblebee Motorized Madness at all...think that DVD is the one bust in the set so don't waste your money purchasing that DVD. I have played it once a month since purchasing it and my infant (now a toddler) just walks off with a look of disgust on his face to find something else to do the second it comes on. He also looks rather irked that I am giving him the opportunity to show interest in what is in his opinion, an awful show. Guess he doesn't need to see it again as his opinion hasn't budged an inch when it comes to the Motorized Madness DVD from this set. He hated it when he saw it the first time, and he's walked off to avoid wasting his time seeing it again ever since.
The rest of the Baby Bumblebee DVDs are great though. My son stands right in the center of the living room absorbing every minute of baby shows he's allowed to watch, and in return, he gets clean bottles and clean laundry now that I have a little bit of time to do those things here and there since finding this Baby Bumblebee DVD series. Every mom needs a little help or a short break here and there. Anyone who would criticize a mom for being human and chide her for using a DVD to "babysit" her child for short periods of time here and there doesn't have kids...maybe an early childhood education degree (even I took one of those easy electives in college for the easy A) and perhaps even lots of untested theories, but no kids for sure. Further, Baby Bumblebee DVDs use real time footage with real kids, so the interactions in the DVDs aren't jumping from clip to clip so fast so as to contribute towards the formation of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Other lunatic (in my humble opinion after lots of research) theories about children under 3 developing problems with depth and dimension perception if allowed to watch too much TV that is 2 dimensional...well, we'd almost all have problems with this if there was any salt behind such theoristic ideas and rather poorly done studies. We haven't found another baby shows series to even come close to matching his level of interest than Baby Bumblebee. My son is not at all autistic, but he does like to learn with the combination of visual, auditory, and repeats of words and phrases that this set employs. Combination learning is highly effective in terms of long term memory tasks. We highly recommend this entire set. You should finally be able to make a phone call or pay some bills when you need a small break from entertaining baby and need something to entertain him or her. We spent a lot of money ordering the entire Baby Bumblee set, but it turned out to be a good purchase...and that's more than I can say for most of the other series we've spent an arm and a leg purchasing. Even my 2-and-a-half-year-old niece watched this series intently when she was at my house visiting. The recommended ages are 3 months to 3 years...seems to be pretty accurate.
Other recomended baby series: In the last month, my 15-month-old son has paid some attention to the Fisher Price Baby DVDs, Baby Nick Jr Curious Buddies DVDs (especially the At the Beach DVD...the others he pays little attention to), the Baby Einstein Signing DVD's (not the other Baby Einstein DVDs), a few of the First Impression DVD (he ignores most the DVDs in the set), half of the Brainy Baby DVDS (especially the numbers one in this set as it goes to 20 and that was new for him as the rest only go to 10), My Baby Can Talk (half pays attention to it at first), and he also really likes the Talking Hands DVD that is made by the same people who make the Brainy Baby DVDs (hand in a multi-colored 'I love you' sign on the cover). He ignored all cartoons and other shows until we found Baby Bumblebee. He hated and still hates Barney, Sesame Street, Clifford, Elmo, and all but 1 of the Baby Einstein DVDs (Signing one was okay) that we'd shown him before trying Baby Bumblebee. Other than these, I'm still searching for shows he might like. He's 15 months and seems to mainly like shows that show objects and name them. He must be really wanting to learn to say more words and have the names of ones he already does know reinforced by the Baby Bumblebee DVDs. People have told me how great the Baby Einstein DVDs are, but they are still not well liked by my 15 month old. For us, Baby Bumbleebee has provided months of educational and entertainment value for the amount spent. We've practically worn out the DVDs. Hope this helps some other parents trying to navigate the sea of baby shows out there to purchase. Unfortunately for us, we've got a library of different baby series at this point. The set of Baby Bumblebee is by far the best set of baby shows we've found to date.
Movie Review: Very effective language builder Summary: 5 StarsMy son's vocabulary is insanely advanced (at 16 months old he had 50 words), and I think this video series has helped. He was a super preemie so therapists were urging us to stay on top of his development (at one point his speech seemed behind). One therapist recommended this video series a few months ago. We play these videos (alternating Volumes 1 & 2) for him once every couple of days. He's suprisingly entertained by them (there's no story, just pictures of things while a voice names them: Baby, Ball!) But he soaks it up, and recently started talking up a storm, pointing to things and yelling Lion! etc. Of course the videos don't get all the credit. I constantly narrate to him. But I highly recommended this video series.
Movie Review: major recomendation for this Entire video collection. Summary: 5 Starsmy daughter will soon be four and started watching these videos at 1yr. her vocabulary is quite large now. the videos are fun for children since they are full of kids of all ages. i would give this more stars if i could.
Movie Review: Great Summary: 4 StarsMy 22 month old loves this tape but he still has not spoken his first words. The music is relaxing and the pictures are intriguing. I would recommend it but do not count on it helping your child speak if he or she has speech delays.
Movie Review: Bee Smart Baby, Vocabulary Builder 1 & 2 Summary: 5 StarsThese are wonderful videos for babies ages 6 months or so, to about 2 or 3. Children I babysit for have them; and they are mesmorized by the soft, kind voice of the narrator, and the life-like pictures shown in the video. The neat thing about these videos is the simplicity of them, and the repetition that keeps the babies interested. They'll show, for example, "feet"---and slowly, but interestingly, show many different sizes and colors of feet, then, later in the video, you'll see the feet again. The narrator says the name of the object being shown, once when the object is first shown, then again, later on in the video. Kids don't even know they're learning! Excellent videos!
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