Meet the Colors DVD

I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about these videos. However, after reading all the great reviews on Amazon from other parents, I decided to give it a try. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised!! My 19 month old son learned his colors in a few weeks and now enjoys pointing them out and saying them wherever we are. I also bought "Meet the Shapes" and "Meet the Numbers". The shapes take a little longer in my opinion as there are some very large words for a toddler like "rectangle" and "octagon"; but make no mistake...my son tries to say them and is recognizing at least 4 of the shapes now instantly. My only complaint about the "Colors" video is that there is no teaching about the color brown so when my son sees something brown, he calls it black. I am trying to teach him the difference between brown and black with crayons and other items.P.S....Some parents commented and how "mind-blowing" it is for parents to watch this video and there is some truth in that. The video repeats the names of the colors what seems to be a million times. However, I happily ignore it because I am so thrilled with how quickly my child is learning. I just focus on something else while it's playing...cooking, dishes, etc...

Meet the Colors My youngest son has special needs & mainly uses sign language as a form of communication. My son can learn all sorts of things from these videos that he was unable to learn in preshcool. With just days of "Meet the Numbers" he knew several numbers and with 2 weeks of "Meet the Letters" he was able to name many letters on the cover of Meet the Numbers. This is a big deal because just saying words clear enough for us to understand is hard yet he was able to say these things. I even consider somewhat of a speech therapy while he does the video because he talks along with them. With the simple & repetitive style it is very easy to pick up and they associate the characters with what they are leraning and are able to generatlize it into every day activities. I HIGHLY recomend this item not only for normal children but for those with special needs. We use our's in the car on the way to school. Better then just sitting there!

Because of so many mixed reviews, I rented the video first to see how my 26 month old would respond to it. Well the first couple of days, she would only watch the first 10 mins then she wanted nothing more to do with it (which made me very happy that I rented instead of buying). Day 3 of the 7 day rental, my daughter begin asking to watch "colors".The video really helped to reinforce her learning. She made such great progress by the end of the 7 day rental that I bought the video.Like many other reviewers stated, the video is a little slow & if your toddler is use to watching more entertaining videos with a little more action, it may not hold his/her attention that well in the beginning. But I say keep trying because it can be very effective. I really wish I had found this when she was 10-12 months old, before she became use to more detailed story lines. Very pleased & would highly recommend!

The first video of the series I bought was meet the letters. At first I thought this video was a total joke as it starts out saying "A" with the letter on the screne about 20 times. I thought good grief I hope the whole video is not like this... and sure enough... it is. But lo and behold my daughter has learned her entire abc's, upper and lowercase, from this video and she loves the repetetion. Aneways, she was having trouble learning her colors... my husband and I were actually wondering if she was color blind!!!! Since we had so much sucess with 'Meet the Letters' I bought her this one and within weeks she knows all her colors. She also loves baby einsteins but is getting a little old for them (she's 2 1/2) but has not learned her numbers even though we have the baby einstein version of numbers. She really learns from these videos! When I have the extra cash, I will buy the other two videos to this series!

It's just right for the little ones although it is really annoying,because it is really repetitious. Every color is gone over at lease 20-30 times so it goes like this red,red,red,red,red,red,red, x 30 yellow x30, and so on. That is the only reason I gave it 4 stars after all it's not for us to like,but it is for us to use as a teaching tool, but my toddler,1st grader who knows all of her colors of course, and I love rock and learn colors,shapes,and counting. And it makes more sense than this DVD. But over all this is a great DVD to introduce colors. Keep in mind toddlers have short attention spans so being repetitious is a good thing because they learn by repetition.

This is all my 2 year old wants to watch, Numbers, Colors and Shapes. It can be nerve racking, but if you have something to do it will occupy his attention. The best part, and the reason I bought the videos was to improve his recognition. After realizing he had picked up the letters from watching Letter Factory with my 3 1/2 years old ("almost 4 Mommy!"), I thought, I need something for colors and shapes. WOW! This is so perfect, the tone, repetition, it's everything they need at this age for learning. And they love it. Within in a week, he knew all his numbers, colors, and shapes. While the 3 1/2 is in preschool, I've got my 2 year giving performances at the grocery store. It's a hoot! Go ahead, get all three. I'm going back for the sight words now!

My son is almost 3, and I've tried almost everything under the sun to help him learn colors to no avail. I was a bit discouraged to read the DVD was boring; after all, my son didn't make it through 30 minutes of Wall-E due to sheer boredom (he never showed any interest in Baby Einstein either). His problem is that he fixates on the objects, and I hoped the sheer repetition of color names would help him overcome that.After only 3 viewings, he was able to name all the colors. I am amazed at how successful the DVD was for him! We're still working on using color names with familiar objects, but I think the cute cartoon characters really help him. And the colors are repeated several different ways and in my opinion much better than other videos that teach colors.

Misplaced the one that came with a set, always a good set of DVDs to learn from!

great product

my son was not very impressed with it.