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Title: For Very Young Toddlers Only
Review: I was too quick to click buy when I saw "Hooked on Phonics." My 4 and 6 yr old are bored to tears by this. It's very simplistic, both in the style, music, stories and visually. So far we've only tried the animal disk and each segment is so short, most with NO VALUE for a child who can already identify animals. Like the segment where a bunny hops around feeding various farm animals, the only time words are said is to identify each animal. No words show up on screen in that segment at all. THERE IS NO PHONIC LEARNING AT ALL. The children photographed on the DVD cases look to be 5-7 yr old, which is very misleading. I think this would serve the same age group as the Baby Einstein videos. Only when my boys were that age I liked the Baby Einstein videos a lot more than what I've seen of this set. I'm sorry I bought this. I gave it two stars (instead of one) because it was my mistake for not researching it more, but compared to Baby Einsteins this is a joke.
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