So Smart! is an award-winning brand, trusted by parents for over a decade. With a deliberately gentle pace, engaging imagery, and soothing music, this series, Baby's Beginnings is created especially for babies who are discovering the world around them. Three bright, bold baby DVDs provide little ones with an exciting introduction to shapes, instrument sounds, and familiar sights. <BR><BR> Sights & Sounds: This bright, bold animated DVD introduces simple, bold shapes, moving patterns and familiar objects such as a dog, tree, or house. Each scene is set to classical music. <BR> Shapes: Meet Cecil the Circle, Suzie the Square and Traci the Triangle. They'll introduce your little one to shapes that are part of everything, from fish and bubbles to clocks and trucks. <BR> Music Sounds: A lumbering elephant made of simple shapes moves to the melodic sound of a guitar. Birds flock together as a violin plays, and a frog hops to the sound of a clarinet. Each instrument is matched to an animal - a great way to introduce young children to the distinct sounds of different instruments. <BR> Bonus CD Playtime: This Collection was created for the time when young children are most alert and active - playtime! Featuring 10 songs by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Handel and more. Activity guide included. The DVD includes parent-guided interactive storybook features and printable story cards!
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Our Resource for calming our children!
I just had to write about the SO SMART products. I borrowed the VHS tapes from the library for my boys, both diagnosed with austism. I had borrowed and purchased so many educational tapes and videos that my first reaction to these were that they weren't on par with Babby Babble and Bumblebee kids. However, there is something about the So Smart dvds FIRST WORDS, COLORS, SHAPES, SIGHTS AND SOUNDS and LETTERS that my boys loved them and still do. When they wake in the middle of the night screaming or they can't fall asleep and are crying they ask for SO SMART sights and sounds or we just put this or Shapes or letters on and they calm immendiately. There is something so soothing about the classical selections played and the mormphing of colors and shapes that calms my boys that I am grateful to SO Smart for their videos. My boys didn't like the newer one, but the ones listed have been very valuable. Thanks, SO SMART!
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Not smart
I'm amazed that people haven't wised up to the deceptive marketing practices used in the titles of videos like Baby Einstein and So Smart! There are no data to support these videos making kids 'smarter' or more like Einstein. Unfortunately, many parents read the title and subconsciously (or not so subconsciously) decide that if the video is called this, it must make kids smarter. Think about it - would you be equally inclined to buy this video if it was called "Ketchup sandwich?" I would venture a guess that most consumers wouldn't.Our local PBS station carries a lot of them. These videos are slow-moving and simple - which is fine for small children. They're probably no better than most other cartoons for pure (and questionable) entertainment purposes IF your child likes them (which our kids don't). However, don't buy them thinking you're doing something good for your kids. Reading, drawing, building with blocks - those are mind-building activities for little minds. Watching TV is not and should not be considered good for children no matter how the stuff put on the screen is marketed. Instead, I hope that consumers exercise a little consumer activism and stop buying things that may trick well-meaning parents into thinking they're doing something good for their children.
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