- It’s never too early to help infants and toddlers start communicating with the help of Baby Einstein. Starring Marlee Matlin, MY FIRST SIGNS teaches children as young as three months to use sign language to express themselves. With signing, babies can learn to talk sooner and convey their wants and needs. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN Rating: NR Age: 786936723571
Product Description
A playful introduction to words and sign language — my street to main street!
– Exposes babies to words and sign language
– Presents a fun way for parents and little ones to “go exploring”
As babies grow, their eye-hand coordination begins to improve as their ability to interact with their surroundings blossoms. It is the perfect time for My First Signs, A playful introduction to 20 common words and phrases from baby’s world — including ”mommy”, ‘… More >>
Baby Einstein – My First Signs
Tags: Baby, baby einstein, Einstein, eye hand coordination, First, first signs, infants and toddlers, marlee matlin, movie genre, perfect time, sign language, Signs
#1 by Lori on April 6, 2010 - 9:12 am
Though I have not viewed the DVD yet because it’s for my son’s birthday, I am extremely happy with how quickly it was delivered. I received it a week before the estimated delivery! As far as the DVD goes, it’s a Baby Einstein … I’m sure it will be awesome!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by S. Liu on April 6, 2010 - 11:27 am
My son is now 1 year and 11 month old, from his very early time, about 3~4 month old, we began to introduce Baby Einstein series to him. He could not without the shows later, averagely watch 3~4 hrs per day. Now he is nearly two years old, but could not even speak out 6~8 words, much late than my friend’s son (the same age), my brother’s daughter and my sister’s son (compare them at the same age). I become to suspect if the Baby Einstein shows do benifit younger babies. The shows seldom speak, mostly music or silence. I really regret that my son spend too much (one and half year) on Baby Einstein. listein to me, talk with you baby, NOT let the Baby Einstein do that.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by B. Hall on April 6, 2010 - 12:35 pm
From a recent study-
These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. “The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew,” says Christakis. “These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos.”
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by M. Love on April 6, 2010 - 2:24 pm
This was a great gift to give my friend who was having her first baby. I can’t wait to see how it works!
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Brian Hamilton on April 6, 2010 - 2:56 pm
It is my own fault for not doing the research ahead of time on this. I bought the item in the rush of being a new parent and should have stopped and thought about what I was doing. My clarity came while watching the video. Almost immediately I realized my mistake and knew that this is not what I wanted my child exposed to. The video was returned and I have since purchased the Garcia Baby Signs book and corresponding DVD for the parents, and am pleased with it.
Children should not be plopped down in front of a TV as a learning tool. It’s nothing more then memorization and skips the development that is critical to a full education. Sure they’re quiet for a bit and you do see some small improvements, but the damage that you do to their overall learning abilities negates those small returns.
For those of you who will immediately claim that I am so lunatic who is citing garbage research, please see a small sample of what I read below:
“The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that children younger than 24 months of age not be exposed to television.” From Anderson, Pempek. Television and Very Young Children. American Behavioral Scientist. 2005; 48: 505-522
Or you can check out one of the following:
Zimmerman, F. et al. Associations between Media Viewing and Language Development in Children Under Age 2 Years. The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 151 , Issue 4 , Pages 364 – 368.
Kaplan, M. Educational Videos Drain Baby Brains. ScienceNOW, 7 August 2007.
Park, A. How Not to Raise a Genius. Time; 8/27/2007, Vol. 170 Issue 9, p46-46, 1/8p.
Cressey, D. Is baby DVD research Mickey Mouse science?. Nature [serial online]. August 23, 2007; 448(7156):848-849.
The science is in and it says that videos for kids under the age of two, which is just about every child that this sign language video is geared towards, are bad. So you may be helping them communicate earlier, but at the cost of their overall development.
Rating: 2 / 5