Meet the Numbers DVD

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. Both boys love it. Within in a week, my 2 year old knew all his numbers, colors, and shapes. While the 3 1/2 year-old is in preschool, I've got my 2 year-old giving performances at the grocery store. It's a hoot! Go ahead, get all three. I'm going back for the sight words now!

I intially bought three of the Preschool Prep Company dvd's for my oldest daughter. She was five at the time and the videos bored her (although she did learn some new words from the dvd's). My other daughter was three at the time. She liked the videos but eventually started loosing interest in most of them after she turned four (she still likes "Meet the Colors", but I borrowed it from the library). Unfortunately, I didn't play the videos frequently enough to know how effective they were on her. Now, I have a two-year-old son (my youngest of the three). He began watching the "Meet the Letters" and "Meet the Numbers" dvd's at age 1. Not only did he REALLY enjoy the videos at the time, but he was able to identify ALL of his alphabets (upper- and lower-case) and numbers, and count objects just from watching the dvd's. I know he didn't learn these things at a daycare, because he was home with me each day. My son couldn't even talk yet, maybe with the exception of saying, "Da-da," and, "No," yet he would see words on someone's shirt or on a poster, and would point out and name each letter he saw. I was surprised--I simply had no idea an 18-month-old could learn their abc's and numbers. He's now two and has just started watching "Meet the Sight Words". He has the same enthusiasm for the video series as he did when he was one, and is now repeating words as he sees and hears them on the video. He actually picks out the Preschool Prep Company DVD's to watch. I'm on the lookout now to see if he starts recognizing the video-featured words in books. It wasn't until my son started watching the dvd's that I finally understood--the video series are designed for an age group of children who probably don't yet talk or are just learning to talk--I would say ages 2 and under. Now that I mention it, I think Preschool Prep Company explains that at the beginning of some of its videos. The message just didn't sink in for me until child number 3.

I began showing my son this video when he was about 9 months old and at first he wasn't that interested. But he is now 10 and a half months old and he absolutely loves, loves. loves it. As soon as I turn it on and he hears the music his face lights up like a Christmas tree!!! And since it is actually teaching him something, I don't feel so bad about him watching T.V. He'll usually watch for about 30 min. and this gives me time to do some cleaning around the house or to just rest for a bit and so it is a win/win!!! We also have the meet the letters dvd and my son loves that one too!

When my son was about 17 months old, he started to show interest in numbers and letters. He has always has letter and number magnets on the fridge, but I decided to try this dvd as well as the "Meet the Letters" dvd to see if it would help him learn in more of a fun way. This dvd is a lot of repetition with saying the names of the numbers over and over and over, but my son just loved it and learned numbers 1-10 after only watching it a couple times. My son is now 2 years old and I still put in this dvd every once and awhile and he gets so excited and proud that he can say the number on the screen before they do. Since this "Meet the Numbes" dvd was such a success, I now have the entire series with the numbers, letters, shapes, colors, and sight words, and my son has mastered all of them. The only con about this video would be that it only goes up to 10. It would be nice if the video went up to twenty, but it is still great for starting out. I really reccommend this series, but just be prepared to hear the numbers over and over in a lot of different voices!

I recently bought this for my 2yr old son and was a little worried that he wouldn't want to sit still or enjoy this DVD. We don't let him watch TV outside of a few minutes here and there of PBS (Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger, and Curious George) and he's always been an extremely active boy, which is fantastic most of the time, but Daddy does occasionally need to do some chores around the house. This film is definitely not aimed at adults, it's easy to sit down and sing along to several of his other DVD's, but this is almost literally just a ladies voice going one, one, one over and over ad nauseum... But he loves it and I feel he's actually getting a much more educational experience in the process. After only a few days he could count to 10 and recognize all of the numbers. I had to go out and purchase more Preschool Prep DVDs. Well worth the price!

Meet the Numbers 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!

We bought this, and a few other Preschool Prep videos for our Grandson, just before he turned two. He spends about three days a week with us, which is true joy! He was just learning a few words and wanted to try out some educational dvds to see if we could enhance his early education. Turns out, this and the other Preschool Prep DVDs quickly became his favorites. He asks for them by name, "Numbers" or "Colors" or "Shapes." The week he turned two (2), we were at a store, walking down an isle, and out of the blue, he started touching boxes going down the isle and said "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine!" We were so proud of him and it gave us some bragging rights. I'm sure other Grandparents know how special those are! We were so impressed with these, we bought another set for him to take to his house, so he could watch them at home as well. These are great DVDs for early childhood development.

This is exactly what I always look for in an educational program, crisp, clear cut presentation. The animation is perfect, it's simple and bold. For every number, there's an animation. First in regular font, narrated by an adult saying it nice and clear, then the number turns into a fun animation. The program also goes on to introduce counting, eg: for the number 3, the number first pops up, then 3 golf balls pops up one by one, encouraging you lilttle one to count along. My only gripe with this DVD (and Meet The Letters) are the high pitched voices they use for the "characters". I can't recall which ones, but some are pitched so high, they don't sound very clear. Say the number "five" would sound like "hive". At least I can skip it and just let my daughter listens to the adult narrator. I won't get into the sfx, which are pretty horrible, but at least not distracting. They could've easily paid for better sfx, or just leave them out. Overall though, I'm very, very happy with this DVD.

My toddler loves it and it's a great learning resource. I like that it is not too long as well. A good Dvd to put in before breakfast if my son gets up too early.

Excellent!

great product