Brainy Baby videos ROCK!! (DVD reviews)

Kids love watching other children on videos and, I love watching my kids light up when they see other children on the videos! We received two Brainy Baby DVD's to review and I cannot rave enough about these videos. Seriously, these are some of the best videos I have seen for children's educational viewing and enjoyment.
I received the Shapes & Colors: Rainbow & Cirlces & Squares - Oh My! and the ABC's: Introducing the Alphabet DVD's. These videos are geared toward the age group of 1-4 and that is the ages of my youngest. All three of my kids just light up when watching these interactive lessons. Here is a glimpse into the videos I reviewed:

Shapes & Colors: Rainbow & Cirlces & Squares - Oh My!
The songs are incredibly lively and fun as kids sing and dance to the shapes and colors being introduced in this video. My kids love to say the shape name and the color before it is revealed. In this video there are eightbasic shapes and 4 advanced shapes, plus over twelve colors. The kids in the videos use many different objects to keep the theme of the shapes being introduced, for instance a circular floaty is used as they say, "Circle." This video is 45 minutes long and has other activities, including: Sing-a-long songs, baby bloopers, sneak peeks, fun learning activities and more! Shapes & Colors engage the viewer's cognitive skills and spatial reasoning, as well as colors and shapes. **Excellent DVD, two thumbs up!!**

ABC's: Introducing the Alphabet
Another excellent video from Brainy Baby...ABC's! I love the music and singing in these videos. In this video the alphabet, upper and lower case letters are introduced. Kids are taught multiple letter sounds and new vocabulary words. I love how this video uses pictures alongside the alphabet letters so that the viewers can retain them. These videos are brightly colored and packed with children showing the letters. This video is 45 minutes as well, and has some of the same special features (just relating to the Alphabet). **Excellent video, two thumbs up!!**

Brainy Baby has been a leader in the development of preschool videos for more than a decade. Their products are designed to help establish a
foundation of educational basics for our children. The award-winning
series was created by educators and parents, so we can trust that their products
can have a positive impact on even the youngest minds.

The Brainy Baby Company just announced the results of a study conducted at the University of Texas, Austin, which found that infants/toddlers under the age of two can learn from DVDs designed to teach young children shapes. The peer reviewed study was conducted using Brainy Baby’s Shapes & Colors DVD and will be published fall 2010 in The Journal of Children and Media, (JOCAM).

This study was conducted specifically to experimentally manipulate commercially available video content and to assess the ability of a toddler to learn from a video. It also represents one of the first studies to examine the transfer of learning from video to another 2D symbolic medium such as a book.
Using excerpts from Brainy Baby’s® Shapes & Colors DVD, two leading research scientists in the field of children’s media studies, Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater (RTI International) and Dr. Rachel Barr (Georgetown University) exposed two groups of children to a series of shapes commonly familiar to the young participants. In addition, the children in the experimental group were exposed to a novel shape, a crescent, using the identical teaching style used in commercially available Brainy Baby DVDs.
The results showed that toddlers between 18 and 24 months, in the experimental group, were 22 times more successful identifying the crescent shape in a book after being exposed to the crescent in the DVD. The test also confirmed that after exposure to the DVD, the crescent could be recognized in other traditional 2-dimensional media.
“All Brainy Baby DVDs were developed using a methodology widely accepted by educators and the special needs community. We use this same methodology in all of our DVDs, which rely on verbal cues and real-life relatable objects to teach children to preschool concepts,” said Dennis Fedoruk, president and CEO of The Brainy Baby Co. “We have always been confident that our DVDs have solid educational value. We’re ecstatic to share the results of the study, which in our opinion, support the many parent testimonials that we have received for the past 15 years and Brainy Baby’s learning potential.”
The University of Texas study concluded that content, and in particular the repetitive style in which the content is presented (such as those demonstrated in the Brainy Baby® Shapes & Colors DVD) is a critical factor to consider when examining the ability for toddlers to learn from television.
“We believe that this is a landmark study and the emerging message is that content matters when teaching young children,” added Fedoruk.
The Brainy Baby Co. has always been a strong advocate for using early learning DVDs in balance and moderation as you would with any teaching tool. The Brainy Baby DVDs are designed for parents to interact with their child by reviewing and discussing the content and to augment the lesson though the use of complementary flashcards, books, music CDs and educational toys.
“We hope that parents will feel confident that their children are benefiting when they watch a Brainy Baby DVD together,” said Fedoruk. “While the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that children under age two not view television at all, we believe that in light of this study, the AAP should recognize the importance of content and the effectiveness of well-crafted, educational DVDs - even for children younger than age two. The AAP should at least consider amending their current policy to include the acceptance of educational DVDs.”

About The Brainy Baby Company
For 15 years, The Brainy Baby Company has been a pioneer and leader in DVDs, Books, Games and Toys for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Globally, Brainy Baby products are sold in more than 60 Countries. The award-winning line of videos, CDs, books, games, and toys introduce educational subjects such as letters, shapes, animals, art and music. Brainy Baby® videos feature multi-ethnic children, original music, nursery rhymes and instrumental classics. In fact, Brainy Baby DVDs have won over 75 awards including Dr. Toy’s Top 100 Best Children’s Product, the Dove Foundation’s Seal of Approval, Parenting Magazine’s Top Videos of the Year, and more. For more information about The Brainy Baby Company, visit BrainyBaby.com


This review was made possible from BrainyBaby.com. I was sent two DVD's for review purposes and I was not compensated for my review. I was also sent information to share with my readers.