Leapfrog Letter Factory Streaming Plus Bonus Sing#

Leapfrog Letter Factory Streaming Plus Bonus Sing

In this entertaining installment of the wildly popular early-learning series, Professor Quigley, Leap, Lily and Tad arrive at the magical Letter Factory, where jumbles of sounds are miraculously shaped into letters. He soon finds Professor Quigley, who offers him a tour of the letter factory with stops in rooms dedicated to each letter of the alphabet.Featuring three all-new original learning songs plus bonus sing-a-long videos and curriculum commentary for parents, LeapFrog Letter Factory Adventures: The Letter Machine Rescue Team is perfect for children ages 4-7 years old and will be available for the suggested retail price of Bernie Rosquites: YouвЂ™re listening to Faith and Family, a Christian family community that aims to promote Christian values.LeapFrog: Letter Factory. Tad, the youngest sibling, leaves the group when he admits to not knowing the sounds that letters make. When the family joins him at the letter factory where he works, the decide to pitch in to help.

I have a toddler, I have a job, I have church duties, and sometimes, I just need my toddler to stay still while IвЂ™m making dinner, doing the dishes, checking my email, and so I sometimes let the T.V., sometimes iPad, babysit him. IвЂ™m a wife, and a tired mom. Led by wacky Professor Quigley, Tad joins Js jumping on trampolines and Ks practicing karate kicks as.

I had both my hands up earlier with you. How are you, my girlfriends?Bernie: So, first of all, Annie this is the first time on board with Tired Moms, and you have two kids, right?Annie: Yes I do. When asked if they often use their tech gadgets to effectively babysit their children, keep them occupied so the parents didnвЂ™t have to, the majority, 58% said that they did while 25% admitted that it depended on the situation.Ok so many of us are letting tech, guilty of letting technology babysit our children, raising my hand, I am one of them, but are we aware of what children, of what our children, are watching? Are we controlling what kind of content they are exposed to? LetвЂ™s ask other moms.Joining me today are Emirick, mother of three boys from Monteclaire, California and Annie Canete, mother of two from Jacksonville, Florida.

And I feel like heвЂ™s probably like three now and probably on the fourth book of Harry Potter. And he read his first 100 words at fourteen months. So nine, twelve, and fifteen.Bernie: Ok so, I know a mom, she put her baby in front of one of those, what do you call those? Those baby can read videos on the iPad everyday and let him play with educational apps since he was little. My seven year old is my son and the three old is my darling little daughter.Bernie: Oh, ok, and Amrick, you got, you have a teenager, right?Emirick: I do! I have a fifteen year old and I haveвЂ¦I have a teenager and a вЂњtweenagerвЂќ and one who thinks heвЂ™s a teenager but heвЂ™s got a long way to go.

So, I would say that, yes, they have benefitted from the technology, it has been helpful, but I agree that there is a flipside to it. And then they would watch the show, and then I would have flash cards, and I would be like, you know, quizzing them here and there. So we had a Leap Frog, what is it called? The Letter Factory and they watched that and they learned their letters quite quickly because of that show. Well when they were little, they watched a DVD, it was a Leap Frog Learning called Letter FactoryвЂ¦Bernie: That was as far as technology went, right?Emirick: Well yea, that was, that was the thing back then. ItвЂ™s like, has your children benefited from the technology now?Emirick: I think so.

Skin, women, upper torso and my jaw dropped, and itвЂ™s just flustered, and I was going, вЂњWait they donвЂ™t know. I was setting up YouTube on our bluray player, right? So itвЂ™s an app accessible there and I had to take a phone call and all I did was open the app, handle my phone call, and I come back probably four minutes later, and my two sweetie pies are sitting on the couch, staring at a YouTube screen, and I haveвЂ¦so itвЂ™s just the YouTube homepage and there was x-rated content on the screen. So what about you Annie? Has your seven year old benefitted it? Have you seen a flipside to that? Where youвЂ™re like, вЂњWhat is that on the screen? Where did you get that? How did youвЂ¦вЂќ.Annie: Oh itвЂ™s the worst thing. What isnвЂ™t accessible?Bernie: And you could do anything online. We love the LeapFrog DVD series and now itвЂ™s all accessible on online streamingBernie: Online, yea.

So like, you know, I try to see, I know that David is really into anime,Bernie: I was going to ask you about that. I try to stay up to date with whatever theyвЂ™re watching and not just so that I could get on their case about it, but I try to enjoy it with them. And IвЂ™m constantly asking them, you know, what theyвЂ™re viewing on YouTube and on the different shows they watch. As long as you ask.Emirick: Yea, even when your kids are a little older, my kids are a little older.

Why that came into our face, that you need to keep checking the history of what theyвЂ™re searching.One night, my oldest son, and this is a couple years ago, when he was probably like thirteen, heвЂ™s in bed and he has the iPad and IвЂ™m like, вЂњHey, why do you have the iPad? Give that to meвЂќ, you know, вЂњItвЂ™s time to go to bedвЂќ. Let me tell you a story of how that came to play. So it has itвЂ™s good sides and its bad sides, and I think as parents, we just have to stay involved and just, you know, we learned the hard way, to constantly check the history of like, what theyвЂ™re searching on the internet. So many things, you know, he draws, he learns about animals, and he draws the animals, and he draws all his anime characters, and he has, you know, I never give him, IвЂ™ve never put him in any drawing lessons, but his drawings are really pretty cool and itвЂ™s just everything on YouTube. I call it вЂњYouTube universityвЂќ because he is learning so much. How is that going? How is that helping him in that realm? Does he likeвЂ¦Emirick: Oh yea, he is constantly drawing all the different anime characters that he watches and heвЂ¦YouTube is everything and he checks it out.

And IвЂ™m very grateful that heвЂ™s got that leveled head because he starts searching the history, and then he starts realizing, heвЂ™s like, вЂњheвЂ™s searching for pregnant anatomyвЂќ. More like, ok, letвЂ™s sit down, letвЂ™s not jump to conclusions. And then of course the dads are going to be moreвЂ¦Emirick: Yea, more understanding. You know, as a mom youвЂ™re like, вЂњOh no, no, no, no, noвЂќ, youвЂ™re going to go clean your eyes out, with like bleach, because there are things you canвЂ™t unsee. And so IвЂ™m like, what is going on, and my husband comes out and is like, вЂњWhatвЂ™s happening?вЂќ, and then heвЂ™s like, вЂњItвЂ™s not me!вЂќ.Bernie: But thatвЂ™s a typical mom thing to do. And so when I, when I realized I was like, wait a second, what? And then, you know, because IвЂ™m like thinking, my son is too young forвЂ¦heвЂ™s not checking this stiff out.

Discover something together. Instead of sending your child off with the device, or to the device, go with them. Because I was a public school teacher and it baffled me when, and weвЂ™re not changing the subject here, but it just baffled me when parents didnвЂ™t spend so much time, and so you can. LetвЂ™s scream together!Annie: After describing what you do with your child, the follow up and the discussion, thatвЂ™s the whole point. This is what heвЂ™s searching, and this is what pops up when he searches itвЂќ, and so my husband and him, and my son, had the talk after that, and all that stuffBernie: And you went to the bathroom and screamed your head offAnnie: IвЂ™m on the other side of her bathroom doors, saying, вЂњWe got this!вЂќEmirick: DonвЂ™t worry.

I had to bring like this huge gym bag with puzzles, and crayons, and big old, like characters because I didnвЂ™t have an iphoneEmirick: Yea, and bring it out, exactly, IвЂ™m bringing out the like preschool as weвЂ™re like at the chapelBernie: Well you know, it is so easy for our kids to get caught up in their games. See an iPhone and an iPad are so nice and compact and you could put them in your purse, and then, like go places, and then if you need it to distract your kids, you could. And chances are, theyвЂ™ve picked it up already so they know what to do when they get to Google, they know how whatever it is they searchEmirick: ThatвЂ™s so true. The teacher does not have time to walk them through, step by step, how to find this stuff.