Product: Eebee's Adventures - Exploring Real Stuff (2005)
Rating: 5.0
My son's favorite - he'd recommend it if he could talk
We bought all three of the Eebee DVDs and would recommend them. Of the three, I'd suggest starting with "All in a days' play" if you only get one. That's the first we bought.What we liked most about Eebee is it featured only scenes of adults, babies, and Eebee playing different games. No computer graphics, no cartoons, no dumb jokes that only an adult would get. You only see things that a child might actually see in real life. It's a refreshing change to finally find a DVD actually made for children!My son loves watching it and over time understood what was happening. We could play the same games in person, and the DVD gave us some great ideas. The DVD features different children and adults, and they limit Eebee to doing things that any toddler might do. Our son also watches some Japanese kids shows, as well as some other DVDs made by other companies, but they don't really compare. They're too abstract, and at times annoying. Put simply, Eebee keeps it real.The one thing to note is there is only about 30 minutes of playtime on this DVD, with another 30 minutes of commentary explaining the best way to play the games shown. That said, when I compared with other DVDs I got like Baby Einstein, they were full of graphics, adverstisements, logos, and filler material (not to mention lots of corny jokes my son doesn't get). Baby Einstein is hit and miss for us, and in my opinion not really worth it by comparison. I'd return it if I hadn't got it on sale. Although we'd like to have seen more footage in Eebee, 30 minutes turns out to be about as much as my son will watch in 1 or 2 sittings anyways.I eventually bought all three DVDs and emailed the makers encouraging them to make more. The funny thing was I only found out about these DVDs because my son liked the Eebee plush toy at our local store, then I found out about the DVDs and ordered one off Amazon. He responded very positively to it around 10 months, although we didn't let him watch regularly until later.