Your child's creativity, achievement, and higher grades start with YOU!
Research shows lasting benefits from age appropriate educational videos, like Tot By Me
Preschoolers who viewed educational programs 1 like Tot By Me
- had higher grades
- placed more value on achievement
- read more books
- had greater creativity
- showed less aggression
Watching Tot By Me videos can have a positive impact throughout your child's life
Watching age appropriate kid's educational videos with your children is important during their early years, giving life long benefits.
Children who watched educational programs between the ages of two and three have higher scores on language, math, and school readiness at age five.2
Four year olds who are frequent viewers of educational programs are more likely than non-viewers to identify colors, count to 20, recognize letters, and tell connected stories when pretending to read.3
There is similar evidence in 15 to 19 year olds that there are positive long term effects of watching educational programming in preschool years.4
The videos your children watch now will affect the rest of their lives.
Tot By Me kid's educational videos teach vocabulary, letters, and numbers with fun games
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Parents agree Tot By Me kid's videos are educational and fun
"Matty asks for "Da [Daddy] video" every day!! He loves it! It's a great learning tool on teaching words."
- Nancy S, mom, Westlake Village, CA
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Children learn vocabulary and extend understanding of familiar words through educational television,5
especially at preschool age.6
Programs can help children learn new words by stressing them in a sentence, enabling children to distinguish those words from the rest of
the sentence, and by providing context for children to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.7
Tot By Me uses many methods like these to enhance children's learning through songs, repetition, and encouraging imitation.
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Choose a character for a FREE personalized educational video starring YOU!!
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- Why are Personalized Educational Videos better?
- How much television should my kids watch?
As with all good things, it is possible to overindulge.
There is evidence that the quality of what your children watch is more important than how much they watch.
Co-viewing with your children and talking about the content at least part of the time will help them get the most out of age appropriate programs.
Make sure your children have plenty of opportunities to interact with you and other kids, besides watching television.
Use your good judgement about when your kids have had enough, turn off the TV, and guide them to another activity.
- What programs are good for my children to watch?
Research shows that programs well designed to be educational for a specific age group can be very beneficial.
Pay attention to age recommendations, for example Sesame St is made for 3-5 year olds and Tot By Me is for up to age 4.
There is little or no educational benefit to watching cartoons designed only as entertainment,
nor in watching programs aimed at a significantly older or younger audience.
If your preschoolers are consistently viewing cartoons intended for older kids, which are common on TV, then get some high quality videos to watch.
- What should I look for in a high quality educational video?
Different age children have different needs. Tot By Me and other high quality educational programs have many of the features below.
Newborns and infants (0 to 12 mo) benefit from seeing the faces of their caregivers.
They have a preference for high contrast, dynamic but slow moving visuals.
Repetition helps reinforce new concepts.
Toddlers (12 to 24 mo) need lots of exposure to new and familiar words.
Adult speakers using simple language aid toddler comprehension of new words.
Verbal emphasis on words and repetition helps build early vocabulary, especially for objects and concepts presented in the here and now, like nouns and verbs.
Letter and number recognition, as well as basic counting begin at this age.
Rhythmic music and simple songs, like Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, encourage dancing and physical participation in viewed content.
Preschoolers (2 to 4 yrs) benefit from seeing letters and words presented with a visual representation of their meaning.
Gradually more complex interconnected story lines help build understanding of event sequencing and knowledge of narratives.
Counting to 20, colors and color concepts, increasingly complicated shapes, and singing along are all introduced.
- How long does it take to personalize my video?
Just 5 minutes!
Once you upload your photo, personalizing your video is fast and easy.
Then we create your FREE sample and it's ready to watch within minutes!
- What do I get?
The FREE sample is a personalized educational cartoon that you watch on your computer.
The cartoon features a fully animated character based on a member of your family created from a photo you upload.
After you create a free sample, you can order a full length educational DVD starring the same character.
Your DVD also comes with a full color glossy picture of your character on both case and the disc itself!
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- How do I give Tot By Me videos as a gift?
We offer gift cards by email or plastic gift cards we send by regular mail.
About Tot By Me
"Face time with family is critical for a child's development and family bonding," says Tot By Me founder, Chris Furmanski, psychology Ph.D.
The founders of Tot By Me want to provide parents with the most meaningful, educational, family-friendly, and personalized video content possible,
while making sure it is as easy as possible to make and use.
References
1. Huston, A.C, Anderson, D.R., Wright, J.C., Linebarger, D.L. and Schmitt, K.L. (2001). Sesame Street viewers as adolescents: the Recontact Study, in Fisch, Shalom M. and Truglio, Rosemarie T. (eds.) G is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street, Mahawah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp.131-143.
2. Bickham, David, Wright, John and Huston, Aletha (2001). Attention, comprehension, and the educational influences of television, in Singer, D and Singer J, Handbook of children and the media, London: Sage Publications, pp. 101-119.
3. Zill, Nicholas (2001). Does Sesame Street enhance school readiness?: Evidence from a national survey of children, in Fisch, Shalom M. and Truglio, Rosemarie T. (eds.) 'G' is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street, Mahawah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp. 115-130.
4. Anderson, D.R., Huston, A.C., Schmitt., K., Linebarger, D.L. and Wright, J.C. (2001). Early childhood television viewing and adolescent behavior: the Recontact Study, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, vol. 66, no. 1.
5. Naigles, Letitia and Mayeux, Lara (2001). Television as incidental language teacher, in Singer, D and Singer J, Handbook of children and the media, London: Sage Publications, pp. 135-152.
6. St. Peters, Michelle, Huston, Aletha and Wright, John (1989). Television and families: parental coviewing and young children's language development, social behavior, and television processing, Kansas City: paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, pp. 1-19.
7. Rice, M.L., Haight P.L., (1986). "Motherese" of Mr. Rogers A Description of the Dialogue of Educational Television Programs. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders Vol.51. pp. 282-287
Additional Resources
Close, R. (2004) Television and language development in the early years: a review of the literature. National Literacy Trust, Swire House, 59 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ
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