Baby Einstein - My First Signs [DVD]

My kids love to sign, so we try and watch every signing video available, but this one went right back to the library. My kids and I were so disappointed with this video. I must say that this area is just not in Beby Einsteins expertise and just because they have a famous deaf actress does not make it good. If your kids truely want to learn a large vocabulary of American Sign Language, then look into the Signing Time video series.

We first offered this to our daughter at about age 6 months, but she wasnt as interested in it as she was with her Baby Mozart, Beethoven, etc. However, she developed more interest at about 10 months, when she became more verbal. Although she never really uses the signs on their own to communicate with us, she began verbalizing the words first by identifying the objects (Mommy, Daddy, baby, cereal, ball, etc.) whenever she saw them, and then using the sign while verbalizing. She often starts the sign game by calling out words and signing them back and forth with us. She also responds appropriately to us when we sign instructions to her (e.g., sleep, eat, drink). This DVD still holds her attention, with its clever use of calm but happy music, and puppet shows in between the signing sequences. We also get more use out of it by using the Bonus Features to learn additional words, or for a quick viewing of puppet shows only. As with the other Baby Einstein DVDs that we own, we also enjoy the diversity of children in the scenes so that all children will see themselves when watching this. This was a great addition to our daughters library.

I bought this for my 2yr old who has a speech delay. There were only 20 signs and more than a few were common signs that we already knew. My son does like watching it but as far as learning new signs it was a bust.

I was so excited about watching this for the first time with my son. I should have known that it would be just like all the other Baby Eintein videos...very poorly put together. The signs are not shown enough for an infant or toddler to grasp them. There are too many filler scenes and pictures. It also did not hold my sons attention. I have heard very good things about the Signing Time videos. I found out that our public television station is going to start showing them beginning in April 07. I am going to record them and watch them with my son. I hope they are much better than what I just watched on the Baby Einstein DVD.

We hot this when our son was about 18 months old and he watched it every day and we all learned a lot of signs.

My daughter was not really into watching any of the Baby Einstein videos EXCEPT for this one. Our neighbor who also has a little girl owned this and I was surprised to see both of the girls absorbed in My First Signs Not only was it fun for them to watch, it has a lot of useful signs that helped them communicate better before they could talk. (Useful for the parents to watch as well)

Doesnt seem to keep his interest for long.

Exactly as advertised

I thought this would be a neat addition to my Baby Einstein Collection. But my son wont watch it. Ive tried several times, and each time he doesnt even last 1 minute. He prefers the more musical dvds.

Traditional GBD I used for my nine year old and now using for my almost 2-year-old son she was six months from watching this