[.ca] Kidsongs: Cars Boats Trains And Planes

Pleasure for toddlers, Painful for parents:
This video is excellent for toddlers, but for parents, it is about as painful to watch as a high school production of Grease. However, it is full of toddler-friendly scenes of children in and around cars, trains, carousels, boats, skates and skateboards, hot air balloons, construction equipment, trucks, planes, and school buses. The copyright date is 1986, which should be apparent from the plaid pants, belted big shirts, lip gloss, sleeveless sweater vests, and hairstyles. Also out of date are the types of vehicles on the road, but young children won't notice. The songs in the video are loosely held together by a very forced "plot" about a multi-ethnic group of children (all of whom call the same woman Mom) out for the day with their wacky Uncle George. They end up chasing their dog through various scenes while lip-sync-ing songs, and nervously looking into and away from the camera like a cat trying to avoid its reflection in a mirror. They encounter a frightening-looking couple out for a romantic time in a rowboat (and later a hot air balloon) who really have no bearing on anything. My son's favorite scene is the one with the hot air balloon, but he also loves the airplane segment with "Into the Wild Blue Yonder," and has memorized the song. Low points in the video (and there are many) include the truly horrible original song lyrics, Uncle George rolling his eyes when the baby in the bus goes "Wah Wah Wah," the attempts by the children to act sad as they sing, "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone," and the way "Mom" delivers her lines. Still there are worse things you could let your child watch, and it really does have toddler-appeal.....somehow.

Pleasure for toddlers, Painful for parents:
This video is excellent for toddlers, but for parents, it is about as painful to watch as a high school production of Grease. However, it is full of toddler-friendly scenes of children in and around cars, trains, carousels, boats, skates and skateboards, hot air balloons, construction equipment, trucks, planes, and school buses. The copyright date is 1986, which should be apparent from the plaid pants, belted big shirts, lip gloss, sleeveless sweater vests, and hairstyles. Also out of date are the types of vehicles on the road, but young children won't notice. The songs in the video are loosely held together by a very forced "plot" about a multi-ethnic group of children (all of whom call the same woman Mom) out for the day with their wacky Uncle George. They end up chasing their dog through various scenes while lip-sync-ing songs, and nervously looking into and away from the camera like a cat trying to avoid its reflection in a mirror. They encounter a frightening-looking couple out for a romantic time in a rowboat (and later a hot air balloon) who really have no bearing on anything. My son's favorite scene is the one with the hot air balloon, but he also loves the airplane segment with "Into the Wild Blue Yonder," and has memorized the song. Low points in the video (and there are many) include the truly horrible original song lyrics, Uncle George rolling his eyes when the baby in the bus goes "Wah Wah Wah," the attempts by the children to act sad as they sing, "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone," and the way "Mom" delivers her lines. Still there are worse things you could let your child watch, and it really does have toddler-appeal.....somehow.

Not for vital toodlers:
My three years old son loves to sing, dance and of course he loves trucks. So I was shure that it will be a great tape for him... Unfortunately - he is not interesting in it at all... The songs are too slow, too "sweet and girly" without any energy and vigor. The plot isn't interesting, few pictures of planes, balloons or trucks really can't rivet my son attention. Maybe the way the video was make was good few years ago - today there is nothing to watch....