Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors - 4 DVD Boxed Set

I have read many reviews that say their child either hate or love these dvds. Honestly, I hadn't even seen these dvds until my 3 year old and I went to a "story time reading" at the local library. Every week, she is allowed to borrow one book and one dvd. Now my daughter doesn't watch a lot of tv to begin with, but when she does... they include Word World, Super Why, and Sid the science kid. She also likes Little Einstein's but not something she watches all the time.My child leans toward very educational programing and doesn't watch a lot of empty entertainment. 30 minutes a day and the rest of the time it is hands on learning time. With all this background put into consideration, my child loves watching things that will make her think, interact, and learn. I recommend going to your local library fist, borrow the dvds (they might not have the set, but they have them individually available). Have your child choose from, meet the numbers, colors, or letters. So they feel more in charge of what they are watching.Bring it home and see how your child reacts. This can take up to three days. Some children love it right away, while other children need it simply in the background as they play with their toys. Yes it might seem "boring" as some people have stated, but the repetitive words actually help the child (not us!). We know our letters, numbers, and colors (One would hope ;)....) It will help the child/children recall what they are learning by the repetitive recalling of the said subject matter.I borrowed the dvd meet the letters, and my daughter begged me to allow her to also borrow, meet the numbers (that was also available), I decided to let her (I am really glad I did) after a week, I was online buying this complete set! Mainly because, my daughter decided she loved the two dvds so much that she didn't want to share or give the dvds back to the library! My daughter loved the dvds instantly, so I did buy this set. So far she loves the colors, letters, and numbers, she is so so with the shapes. All around with these dvds, my daughter loves the main menu where we can choose to watch all of it, and then look over flash cards, and other options as well. For the most part my daughter understood her colors, shapes, numbers (counting 1-15), and also recognized all of her letters (just not in order, she knows all the letters and their sounds).After three weeks with all the dvds (between borrowing them and now owning them), she repeats the colors every chance she sees them, same with shapes, and now she also says all the letter in order (her favorite letter is W!), I feel do to watching these, she now wants to count higher than the dvd (we now can count to 29 she can actually counts to 30, but when she gets to 29 she says she doesn't like 30 and doesn't want to add that number after 29! ha ha ha). So with this super long review, I will wrap it up like this.... I love the set, we have now pushed out dvd watching time to almost an hour and a half a day! Do to my child wanting to spend more hands on time with all her educational toys and repeating the said subject be it numbers, letter, shapes, or colors!I truly think these are great products, and if you are unsure how your child will react; borrow them from the local library, be prepared to head right back here and buy them! Because, they are great products!!!

I bought this to steer my tots away from useless screen time while taking long car trips. I was very surprised so see how engaged they were. To my surprise after watching it over and over for a couple weeks when we they are riding in the car, they actually learned all the letters and I loved up to the next video. In a nutshell, I bought this to be a reinforcement to what I was attempting to teach them but it became the teacher and I became the reinforcement with flash cards just to vague is it was time to mov Ron to the next video. I have 4 children and have subsequently used it for all 4 and this is how they have all learned the letters, phonics and numbers. Advice - use it only in the car if you have long commutes and attach it to the headrest so they can’t turn the channel. Being the car kids passively look at anything mildly entertaining and will not bore of it!

We purchased the colors/shapes/numbers/letters DVD set on Amazon and started our firstborn on them at about 8 months old, for about 20 minutes a day (during that time when you just need time to shower, prepare a meal, etc.). By 12-months-old he could recognize and recite the shapes, colors AND every letter of the alphabet (not just when watching the video, but in any media - newsprint, signs, books, handwritten). He could do the same for the numbers 0-10 by 14 months. We were very proud parents but thought perhaps our child was a genius (what first time parent doesn't?). Nope, worked the same for his little brother, who we started on the videos a bit later and not as regular (his older sibling provided a lot of entertainment/distraction), but he still caught on quickly and at about 14 months knew them all.I'd say the sweet spot in age is probably 8-15 months old for these videos. Our kids were glued to the TV when these were on, until about 15-16 months old and by then needed something more (or maybe they were just bored since they knew it all). Some parents find the repetitious voice annoying but it never bothered myself or my husband. I find Sesame Street characters and many animated voices far more irritating!We have the 3 sight word DVDs as well and feel they have helped our kids with the basics of early reading, but there is simply no comparison to the first DVDs in terms of progress - it's amazing to witness a child recognize any letter by age 1. I'd prefer them learning and catching on with these videos to any other TV or technology-based media (tablets/computer games) for short spurts of time. In other words, if you have to give them TV time at a young age, this is the way to do it!An added bonus: you can select English or Spanish on the DVD.You won't regret this series as a birthday gift for a 1-yr-old!