Don't send your children to school, use this instead! NOT! (VTech Alphabet Phonics Teacher)

Member Name: Claribella

Product:	VTech Alphabet Phonics Teacher
Date:	14/09/09 (42 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Bright engaging

Disadvantages: Don't like the idea of it

My mum in law was fishing throughher loft the other day and found this toy so she bought it around for Noah. She had used it for her youngest son and thought that he might find it fun to play with.

After all this time the batteries were still working so I was thankful that I didn't have to fork out for some.

The toy is rather big and sits on your lap. It's very bright and colourful and on the red plastic outer, there are all of the letters of the alphabet which are easy to push. When you push them they make a sound depending on which button you have it on. There is a handle at the top and it's very lightweight which makes it very easy to carry from room to room.

You can have the toy on different modes depending on what you want your child to learn. It's primarily for learning the sounds of a letter or the name of the letter itself but because Noah is only young we tend to keep it on the mode where the child can hear the sounds each picture makes.

Noah loves this toy and I love the fact that it can last him from a young age up until he's learning the alphabet at school. The buttons are easy for him to press and he does like to repeat what the person says out loud.

As far as a learning tool goes, I think it would help if I sat down with him and actually played it with him when he gets old enough because I hate the fact that this piece of equipment is suppose to teach him the alphabet and sounds but I'm not keen on Vtech stuff in general anyway.

Over all this is useful tool that is fun to play with but I'm not sure it would actually live up to it's desired effect and I think most kids would get bored of being taught by a computer.

Summary: Don't bother!