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Non-Threatening Approach to Insects for 2-7 Years Old
We purchased this for my 16 1/2 mo. old to help him overcome his recently-developed fear of insects. A group of multi-ethnic as well as a couple of special needs children narrate this video. Children are shown playing with, searching for, and imitating the movements of various bugs (these particular scenes can go on and on and on...). The pace is very slow and lackadaisal (especially by today's flashy & fast-paced standards) as the children are shown sitting in circles, frolicking in tall grasses, and letting the bugs crawl on their hands and arms. I don't quite consider this video to be educational in the sense that insects are presented in an organized fashion with a narrator sharing little tidbits of facts about them. In fact, at times the bugs aren't even identified or mentioned by name at all, which left me scratching my head trying to figure out what to call them. It made me wonder if I could get some neighbor kids together and produce such a video myself! I also noticed that while this video is entitled, "Bugs Don't Bug Us," it actually depicts a variety of invertebrates (which it mentions on the back flap). For instance, a snail is not really considered a bug; it is a mollusk. If you want your child, especially your older child to learn proper classification, I don't recommend purchasing this video. If you, however, want to use this video as a "psychological" tool to help your toddler or preschool overcome a fear, it's perfect! In addition to this video, you might take your toddler outside and go bug hunting or design your own antfarm (it's really easy - directions for this all over the internet). This video depicts: spiders, ants (in the wild and in an antfarm), snails, inchworms, earthworms, bees (on flowers and in an beehive/farm), dragonflies, preying mantises, caterpillars, ladybug, roly polies/potato bugs, and many more I can't remember;-) One thing I really liked: It demonstrated the process of two different caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies. Hope this helps!

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Bugs Don't Bug Us
Bugs Don't Bug Us is an excellent video. Children observe bugs in a gentle and confident manner as they provide bits of information about the bugs they are observing. The video provides a view of bugs in a non-theatening way flowing from one small being to the next.

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This is the best children's video I've ever purchased..
A highly appropriate and effective introduction to insects and other small creatures, this video takes the "creepy" out of "creepy crawlies". This enchanting window into a young child's world actually stimulates the children watching it instead of duling their minds.