Baby Einstein - My First Signs [DVD]

I am gathering educational toys and books for our daughter to use with her in working on developmental milestones. There is a lot of literature out that suggests signing is an excellent way to communicate with baby, and by using ASL you are giving your child a life skill that could be helpful when they get older as well. I was really trying to stay away from DVDs because I think that kids get too sucked into TV nowadays. However, books dont cut it with sign language. It is much more helpful to see the signs demonstrated repeatedly by people who know what they are doing. And Marlee Matlin is the best model for signing that they could have chosen for this DVD. This DVD is engaging. The filming is of good quality, it shows the signs in context with imagery between each of the lessons. And throughout the show, there are little puppet skits which kind of go with the show but also, in my opinion, provide a little break from the learning to keep the kids engaged. I have watched other Einstein videos where I stopped and asked myself What WAS that supposed to be, they wanted HOW MUCH money for THAT?. However, that was not the case with this video. My daughter and I enjoyed it and we are learning something useful together. The only improvement I could think of would be to make subsequent volumes of videos like this with expanded vocabulary. This particular video only covers very basic words such as mother, father, kiss, more, sleep, baby, blanket, and a few others. I think the content is just right for a First Signs video. And I dont think a small childs attention span could take much more than this at one time. But it would be nice if they offered a library of progressively advancing signs on other discs. I would highly recommend this DVD to parents interested in signing with their children.

My kids ages 2 &1 both picked up at least one sign the very firs time watching! I think its very good starter sign movie for their age group!

I purchased this DVD for my 2 year old nephew. He speaks, but I thought this would be a really cool way to bond with him and have something special we can share. His mom liked the DVD so much she is now interested in learning ASL (American Sign Language).

I checked out Signing Time DVDs from the local library for my daughter. She LOVES them. I thought she would like this too. She does, but not me. I agree with another reviewer about the filler--too much time showing the pictures but not enough for the signs. The music and scenes make it somewhat entertaining for little kids, like other Baby Einstein DVDs, but not very educational. So if you shopping for DVDs teaching sign language, there are better options.

My baby girl loves this DVD! Shes 7 months shes been watching it since she was about 5 months. She loves the puppets! She squeals and giggles. I love to see her get so excited about it.

it was cute and easy to follow

As a former professor of sign language, it is very important to open visual communication to babies because it allows them to figure out semantics at an earlier age and improves reading skills immensely.

My son is 17 months and LOVES this Baby Einstein DVD. He already knew a few signs but picked up more from this video. Everytime we play it he is riveted and looks back and signs to us as he recognizes the signs in the video. I cant even put his other Baby Einstein DVDs in because he expects and only seems interested in this one. I hope they come out with more of the signs series!

This is an excellent introduction to using sign language to communicate with your baby. It is so entertaining that my 14 month old son can sit still and watch a lot at a time. And what is more, its not obnoxious, so you as a parent will delightfully watch and learn in tandem with your child.

My daughter LOVES this DVD and beyond its entertainmkent value she has learned a great deal from it. I started teaching my daughter sign language at a year old and she knew a very limited number of signs. Once we got the DVD shes taken off! Now she communicates daily with signs and it has made life easier for all of us! Whenever she wants to watch it she points at the TV and then does the sign for baby. This DVD is a hit!