DVD

Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival

Average customer rating:

Baby Mozart, Just Wonderful
Baby Einstein is a Scam
safest buy of the series
A 30 minute toy commercial
About as useful as those Dog Sitter DVD's

Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Accessories:

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Product Features:

Features classical music by Mozart
Includes parents guide to video
Enhances motor skills
Length of DVD: 70 minutes
A Baby Einstein top seller

ASIN: B00005YUPN
Release Date: 2002-03-12

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It's called "the Mozart Effect," the notion that exposing youngsters to the melodies of the maestro can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity, and memory. It's a pretty big leap of faith to understand that effect unless you personally see a toddler react to the stimulation. The Baby Einstein folks have a series of tapes (Baby Einstein, Baby Bach) that add visual stimulation to the bouncy recordings (using vibraphone, Rhodes electric piano, and even a glockenspiel). The melodies are heard against colorful imagery of spinning tops, wave machines, soft baby toys, mobiles, and the like. Several parenting groups and magazines have heralded the tapes for children 1 to 36 months, but the Orwellian aspect of introducing babes in arms to the TV screen may cause many to just pick up the CD. --Doug Thomas

Product Description

Baby Mozart DVD Baby Einstein Baby Mozart DVD is a musical festival for little eyes and ears. Through Baby Mozart introduce your little one to the splendor and delight of Mozart's classical music with visually stimulating real-world objects. Baby Mozart DVD is a captivating experience that exposes babies and toddlers to the splendor and delight of classical music while mesmerizing them with stimulating, colorful images. Both parents and little ones will love these enchanting versions of classical compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, re-orchestrated just for little ears in Baby Mozart.

Customer Reviews:

Baby Mozart, Just Wonderful.......2007-06-03

Baby Einstein is a wonderful new line of videos to aid in your child's development. Get them off to a new start with these videos, and this special one, Baby Mozart. Get them well on the way to a successful future now! Don't wait!

Baby Einstein is a Scam.......2007-05-27

Be a genius, don't fall for the alluring proposition that this will make you child any more cultured or intelligent. There are no studies or otherwise to prove anything that these videos claim.

"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not recommend television for children younger than two years of age." - [...]

"The baby video industry is a scam. There's no evidence that the videos are educational for babies, and a review of the research on babies and videos concludes that while older babies can imitate simple actions from a video they've seen several times, they learn much more rapidly from real life."
-Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan Lynn

safest buy of the series.......2007-05-22

This is the first one we got and 10-month old daughter has been watching this one since she was 2 or 3 months, and still loves it. I'd say either this, or the Baby Monet, is her favorite of the BE DVDs. The "choreography" is spectacular; for instance, during the Turkish march, they show toy penguins (at least I think that's what they are) moving up and down one of those roller-coaster things. No doubt that it's marketing for their toys, but it's enjoyable to watch it anyway, and probably helping to develop her sense of music. When I put that same piece on for the baby (some recording other than the BE DVD) and I imitate the penguins, she laughs. To be sure, the quality of BE DVDs varies from one to another, and just because you like one, doesn't mean you'll like all of them. But if you buy only one of them, this is the one to get.

Notwithstanding the lack of correlation between exposure to baby videos and intelligence (as cited by some other reviewers), a search of the scientific literature does yield some studies published in recent years showing that exposing infants to specific musical styles influences their musical preference later on (for instance, see Cognition. 2000 Oct 16;77(1):B15-23). Obviously, this does not mean that you need BE. My infant hears much more music, including plenty of Mozart, via audio without video, and the BE is just something extra. In spite of the commercial content, I think it is a worthwhile expense.

A 30 minute toy commercial.......2007-04-21

Not only do they start with a promotional message you are not allowed to skip, the whole DVD shows a selection of toys available for purchase - the website is helpfully listed at the end.

So... they are advertising directly to our babies now, and making us pay for it by saying they are going to help our children's brains.

So, you can take your pick as to who is being programmed.

This one's going back. I think I'll try The Wiggles.

About as useful as those Dog Sitter DVD's.......2007-04-06

Very highly overrated... I've seen kids that would be mesmerized by this and I'm glad it works for their parents... I think my child is just easily bored... to be honest you'd keep your childs attention more by throwing on a family video.

I'll try the tapes again when she's a little older but for a curious and intelligent nine-month old I'd have to say these tapes are a waste of money.

[4 DVD SET] Baby Einstein - Baby Monet - Discovering the Seasons / Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival / Baby Einstein - Baby Bach - Musical Adventure / Baby Einstein - Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun

Average customer rating:

[4 DVD SET] Baby Einstein - Baby Monet - Discovering the Seasons / Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival / Baby Einstein - Baby Bach - Musical Adventure / Baby Einstein - Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun

ProductGroup: DVD
Product Features:

Enhances motor skills / Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
"Concert Hall" Feature Plays Music Only
Repeat Play and Auto-Play Options
Video Tutorial: Baby Einstein Overview
Printed Parent Guide / DVD-ROM Coloring Book

ASIN: B000KMKDHS

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