The first two entries in the projected multi-volume Video Parents series, these programs offer guidance for new parents from birth through the age of two. Divided into numbered chapters for easy reference, each program contains 11 segments showing various aspects of childrearing while voice-over narration provides instruction and advice. Your Baby's First Six Months covers, among other topics, first impressions about your baby (and answers to questions such as: why is my baby's head shaped like a football?), breast feeding vs. bottle feeding, weaning, eating solids, changing diapers, bathing, temperament, and, most importantly, how to handle a baby whose sole concern in life seems to be simultaneous lung and tear duct exercises. Your Baby's First Steps looks at physical development and growth, teething, home safety, routines and discipline, games, daycare and babysitters, diet, communication, and more. While neither program packs the personal punch of a superior tape like Your Baby: a Video Guide to Care and Understanding with Penelope Leach (VL-9/90), both offer good straightforward practical information for expecting and new parents. And the second tape concludes with one of the most chilling preview scenes we've ever encountered: a child takes a fully-jellied piece of bread and pops it into a top-loading VCR! (and, as near as I could tell, it was not a stunt VCR or, for that matter, a stunt child.) Welcome to the world of 3-year-olds. Recommended. (R. Pitman)
Your Baby's First Six Months; Your Baby's First Steps
(1993) 52 min. $19.95 ($34.95 w/PPR). Ceres Int'l (dist. by ConsumerVision, Inc.) Color cover. Vol. 9, Issue 4
Your Baby's First Six Months; Your Baby's First Steps
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