Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors - 4 DVD Boxed Set

I bought the whole set. I babysit grandchildren of varying young ages. The 3 and under crowd prefer the the "Colors", "Shapes" and "Numbers". Three and older prefer the "Meet the Sight Words" set. We spend most of our days with one of these DVD's being watched or in the background. I watch 4 Grandchildren, one year old, two 3 yr. olds and one 5 year old. I love many of the things that others complain about. When my own children were young, they preferred to watch Mr. Rodgers, over watching Sesame Street. They liked the calming show better than the wild one. While I have all of the Leap Frogs and highly recommend them, too, we have really liked the educational, fun, and calm way that these shows are presented. They start out by completely introducing what they are teaching, in a fun way. Then they start repeating the concept in similar fashions, but moving faster. There is a lot of repetition, but it is done in a fun way. One of my granddaughters is blind and gets over stimulated easily. She stands next to the TV, to try to see the simple shapes and loves the music. The pictures are kept simple, really featuring the thing being presented. The music is often soft and often is a nursery song, with music only, in the background, while the concept being taught is being presented. Personally, I find it much more calming than most educational videos, yet every grandchild adores them. Perhaps your own attitude towards them would make a big difference, too. I am very impressed with every one of them.

I have 3 kids: 9 months, 3 1/2, and 4 1/2. These are very basic simple repetitive learning DVDs. I play them in the truck every morning/evening on the way to/from daycare/work. I don't think the older ones would sit and watch them at home, but they are perfect for truck rides. After a few months, I have definitaly noticed both my 3 & 4 year old know their colors and shapes better, they could point out most of the colors, but not they use them when describing or talking about something. I think these are great educational videos. My 9 month old even stares at them I think cause she likes the bright colors. So I would say they are great for ages up to 5 like advertised for color and shapes, probably even older for numbers and letters. We also have the set of 5 coloring books, my 3 1/2 year old likes to color and thinks it's cool that the characters are in the book for her to color. I would definitly suggest this as a better alternative to Elmo or Dora cause they actually seem to get more out of it.

I have read many reviews that say their child either hate or love these dvds. Honestly, I hadn't even seen these dvds until my 3 year old and I went to a "story time reading" at the local library. Every week, she is allowed to borrow one book and one dvd. Now my daughter doesn't watch a lot of tv to begin with, but when she does... they include Word World, Super Why, and Sid the science kid. She also likes Little Einstein's but not something she watches all the time.My child leans toward very educational programing and doesn't watch a lot of empty entertainment. 30 minutes a day and the rest of the time it is hands on learning time. With all this background put into consideration, my child loves watching things that will make her think, interact, and learn. I recommend going to your local library fist, borrow the dvds (they might not have the set, but they have them individually available). Have your child choose from, meet the numbers, colors, or letters. So they feel more in charge of what they are watching.Bring it home and see how your child reacts. This can take up to three days. Some children love it right away, while other children need it simply in the background as they play with their toys. Yes it might seem "boring" as some people have stated, but the repetitive words actually help the child (not us!). We know our letters, numbers, and colors (One would hope ;)....) It will help the child/children recall what they are learning by the repetitive recalling of the said subject matter.I borrowed the dvd meet the letters, and my daughter begged me to allow her to also borrow, meet the numbers (that was also available), I decided to let her (I am really glad I did) after a week, I was online buying this complete set! Mainly because, my daughter decided she loved the two dvds so much that she didn't want to share or give the dvds back to the library! My daughter loved the dvds instantly, so I did buy this set. So far she loves the colors, letters, and numbers, she is so so with the shapes. All around with these dvds, my daughter loves the main menu where we can choose to watch all of it, and then look over flash cards, and other options as well. For the most part my daughter understood her colors, shapes, numbers (counting 1-15), and also recognized all of her letters (just not in order, she knows all the letters and their sounds).After three weeks with all the dvds (between borrowing them and now owning them), she repeats the colors every chance she sees them, same with shapes, and now she also says all the letter in order (her favorite letter is W!), I feel do to watching these, she now wants to count higher than the dvd (we now can count to 29 she can actually counts to 30, but when she gets to 29 she says she doesn't like 30 and doesn't want to add that number after 29! ha ha ha). So with this super long review, I will wrap it up like this.... I love the set, we have now pushed out dvd watching time to almost an hour and a half a day! Do to my child wanting to spend more hands on time with all her educational toys and repeating the said subject be it numbers, letter, shapes, or colors!I truly think these are great products, and if you are unsure how your child will react; borrow them from the local library, be prepared to head right back here and buy them! Because, they are great products!!!

Meet the colors is the best one - easy, simple, so much fun, and very cleverly put together. it's my daugher's favorite. The best one in the bunch. She stars laughing as soon as the video starts.Meet the shapes is ok - definetely not as good as meet the colors. It's shorter and it seems like for an older child (mine was 8months when she started watching these). there is not as many examples of the shapes and it took my daugher a few months to start recognizing the shapes. with the colors she just stars laughing immediately.Meet the numbers is even worse - wayyyyyy too short. Definetely not worth the money. Some numbers like 9 and 10 are very boring and my child just keeps squirming during their part in the video. The smaller numbers she is ok with and pays attention.Meet the letters - haven't seen it yet.Gave this product a 4 since after a while watching the video my girl will recognize the colors, shapes, and numbers when I say them to her. Meet the colors is the best but disappoited of the other videos. Don't bother spending your money on the set just buy that one.