Baby Babble 2 - P B M

I have a 3 year old who didn't seem interested in talking until she was two (though she had sign language). Her preschool director thought she was coming along and to give her more time so she hasn't been to speech therapy but I'd been doing research and found my way to this dvd series & their book.This dvd concentrates on the sounds p b and m, and if you sound those out you'll notice it's the same mouth motion for each one with the difference being in vibrating your vocal cords or keeping your mouth shut (they explain that in a separate parent tutorial). This allows them to change the content and vocab words but the child is still practicing the same mouth motion and developing the muscle memory. I watch with my kids usually and when there is silence we'll chime in a description of what's on the screen ("A ball! It's spinning! Round and round" etc)making this an interactive experience between us.While I was concentrating getting my first born to speak, my second born was watching and learning every bit and has ended up being a very accomplished early talker. While she was born with that inclination, I have no doubt that my new found ability to provide clean information made learning easier and less frustrating. For my speech delayed child, she locked on to this as useful information and immediately had improvement in pronunciation. So I recommend this video for any baby/toddler -- speech delay or not, and I certainly recommend this before some of the time-waster entertainment-only DVDs.I realize we live in an age of state of the art digitized technology with all manner of gizmos and noise to fascinate and distract children -- but I think it lends a certain amount of cacophony that doesn't help the learning child. The simple "low budget" presentation of this DVD is a teaching foundation that I've taken and applied to other situations. I've become more conscious about describing what I'm doing in a simple repetitive manner in my daily interactions (I'm not a chatterbox, so it wasn't a natural inclination). I'm a much better teacher for my kids from these videos. It goes into the parenting 101 category for me and I've been sure to recommend it to other parents.

The first time you watch this video, you're going to think you made a mistake. It seems very strange and dated. I, like you, was sold by all the reviews. Once I made the purchase though, this video sat unwatched in my prime app. After it became apparent our 19 month old had a slight speech delay we were desperate to keep stimulating him and willing to try anything.The second, third and thousandth time I watched this series I can honestly say it's perfect. It's simple with happy music, quick colorful scenes and sounds and dramatic changes from image to image. It's exactly what you need to keep a little one entertained.Expect to see images of popular children's toys paired with bouncy music, while narrators make sounds. Some scenes are just colors and music, while cut away images of the narrators show basic sign language. This is not a signing video though - it's a communication video.We watch each video in the series once in the morning and once in the evening while he plays or eats. I can honestly say after 8 weeks of doing this faithfully he has more than tripled his vocabulary. Granted we were starting at a pretting low point of two or three words, but as of today (just shy of 21 months), he easily has command of 40 or more unique words and sounds. Keep in mind that we are also incorporating daily use of picture and word books, but I attribute the lion's share to this video series.He wasn't glued to it the first five or ten times he watched, and even now sometimes it just plays in the background while he builds with his mega blocks; but he's definitely hearing it and learning. Just now as I typed this he said "P!" Right as the narrator introduced the letter. It's a fun video series that empowers babies and toddlers to learn from imagery in short, bright bursts. Exactly appropriate for their growing brains.For mom and dad the movies can become a bit tedious and nerve wracking, but hopefully when you see dramatic improvement in your child's vocabulary you won't mind as much. I don't. I am extremely happy with this purchase. Keep an open mind and you will be too!

Well done. Kept kid's interest.

i bought all the 3 series and my 2 yr old son would not watch it more than once.it is overpriced for its content