Product Description

Child Development: The First Two Years is a comprehensive guide to enhancing your child's physical and mental development. Designed with the assistance of leading authorities on childhood, this educational DVD & child rearing documentary guide will help you meet the challenge of nurturing your baby and creating the best possible environment in which your child can learn, grow, and flourish into a healthy, well adjusted adult. Raising a child is an exciting experience that can often seem overwhelming. This enhanced DVD will help give you the confidence to face this immense challenge at every stage of your baby s development, and assure that your children have the chance to benefit from the fullest and most supportive early care and guidance. You will see babies just like yours involved in everyday activities. Their developmental periods are divided into 4 segments: 0-3 months old, 3-6 months old, 6-12 months old, and 12-24 months old. These sections make understanding and application of the lessons learned through this educational film as easy as possible for you!The knowledge of what your child is experiencing, coupled with love, patience and a sense of humor, will add to your child s self-confidence ...and your own sense of satisfaction. This DVD will help you nurture your baby and create the best possible environment in which your child can learn and develop.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61184 in DVD
• Brand: V.I.E.W. INC.
• Released on: 2003-07-17
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 87 minutes

Planned Parenthood
an exciting experience... film provides information in many area including: language development, nutrition, sensory development, and separation anxiety

The Connecticut Parent- Bill Brennan
give parents... confidence in facing the immense challenge... add to your child's self-confidence and your own sense of satisfaction

Billboard Magazine
…a tall order. Yet this video delivers… Well-produced and including the latest research in child development… an excellent guide

Customer Reviews

Key Ingredients...Information, Compassion and Humor
With the many obligations in parents' daily lives, plus so many short- and long-term decisions to make, moms and dads can become confused, short-tempered, and completely stessed out. And that leads to feelings of anxiety, guilt and incompetence. This DVD Video Guide is supportive and informative without talking down to you and helped give me the confidence I was looking for to face some of the common challenges that arise in the first 2 years. The information is clearly presented and is organized into the following developmental periods: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months and 12-24 months. For the next age group...toddlers-preschoolers (ages 2, 3, 4 and 5), I highly recommend a small pocket guide called THE POCKET PARENT offering hundreds of sanity saving suggestions to try. Set up as a quick-read A-Z guide...it covers every challenging behavior you can think of such as anger, bad words, biting, hitting, the gimmes, morning crazies, tantrums, bedtime and mealtime refusals, separation anxiety and whining. CHILD DEVELOPMENT: The First 2 Years and THE POCKET PARENT are supportive easy reference guides for the home or daycare setting to revisit again and again.

Basic info set in old style 'video'
Offers pretty basic information on the development of infants and looks to be from the 80's though the copyright says 1993. Although I'm sure child development hasn't changed that much over the years, the whole thing seemed a bit outdated. I much preferred The Baby Human and hope they come out with more from that series.

Disappointed
As a nutritionist and a postpartum doula, I was very disappointed with this video. It shows babies drinking juice both from cup and a bottle and gives out-dated information for starting solids. Breastfeeding is not held up as the "gold standard" as it should be. Some of the other information is good, but you can find it elsewhere.