
Great DVD to teach kids through music

I bought this DVD for my two year old son. He's just getting into Sesame Street, and he particularly likes Cookie Monster. (So do I.) I liked that the DVD included songs I remembered from my own youth; it was good to see them again, just as they had been then. The songs and skits of the DVD were tied together by a simple plot: Cookie Monster starts his own bakery. When my son gets older, I can see more opportunities for teaching here; things like learning how to be patient while cookies bake and cool!
This DVD is 30 minutes long. It's a little short for my nostalgic side, but probably just the right length of time for your average newcomer to Sesame Street. (I'm sure I'll appreciate the brevity of it when I've watched it for the thirtieth time.) I would have liked it more if it had included more than just the one human guest star, Annette Benning, but the skit between she and Cookie Monster is cute and well done.
Perhaps the best part of the DVD was a song called "What is Friend". I can see myself going over this with my son a lot, teaching him to share and what it means to be kind to someone else.
Overall, there are lots of basic skills, even math, that you can teach your child with this dvd. It's more than just a cartoon to stick him or her in front of for half an hour, and it seems like it will stand up well to repeated adult viewing.
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