Children Videos

[chanchao]

Looking to buy come VCD/DVDs of educational or otherwise 'just fun' videos for very young children. Teletubbies and suchlike, i.e. for very young kids.

Where should I best go for these? Book stores like Se-Ed have them?

I already tried internet downloads but it's hard to find stuff that's not music, movies or pr0n.

[p1p]

If you know what you want, have a look at isohunt dot com for torrents.

[chanchao]

For some reason torrents never work for me. I'd much rather just go to a shop and pay money. (I never thought I'd ever say that.. )

[mongoose]

They use to sell some (a few) of them in the CD shops in large computer plaza/buildings. Computer Plaza, IT Plaza, Pantip Plaza.... Possibly check with somebody who has older children, they might just have some dusty ones around, used but functional.

Edited April 3, 2007 by mongoose

[Austhaied]

Try B2S inside Robinsons at Central Airport Plaza in the childrens book section ,they have that sort of thing there.

Edited April 3, 2007 by Austhaied

[The Dan Sai Kid]

if you find yourself at Mae Sai, there is a DVD shop on the Thai side - to the left of immigration and go as far as you can and it is in the small covered market.

They have some Bob the Builder and Teletubbies boxed sets.

[oldoldgit!!]

Hi Chanchao,

Thanks for directions last year when looking for carved elephant table in Bosang, I dont know if you know that you can Google ''cbeebies'' and your child can play many cbeebie games, my three year old sits on my knee and play's Teletubbys etc, she loves it.

[JuniorExPat]

Looking to buy come VCD/DVDs of educational or otherwise 'just fun' videos for very young children. Teletubbies and suchlike, i.e. for very young kids.

Where should I best go for these? Book stores like Se-Ed have them?

I already tried internet downloads but it's hard to find stuff that's not music, movies or pr0n.

Amazon.com is your friend or if, like me, you require British English then Amazon.co.uk is your friend.

The toy section in Central Kad San Keaw has some BBC VCDS plus others as does Robinson at Airport Plaza.

Google searching Bob the Builder, Kipper the Dog and Teletubbies will bring up at least three sites with online interactive activities.

The Childrens BBC site has some great stuff too and I think that you can order VCD/DVD stuff from there too.

I have a reasonable collection including some sent from folks in the UK (some were just freebies with the Sunday papers but well recieved all the same) along with MP3s etc of nursery rhymes and folders (on the PC) full of print outables of colouring in sheets all of which I would be happy to share - PM me if interested.

JxP

[chanchao]

Ok I made progress.

> I dont know if you know that you can Google ''cbeebies'' and your child can

> play many cbeebie games, my three year old sits on my knee and play's

> Teletubbys etc, she loves it.

Yes, what an awesome site!!!! Went to the Teletubbies site, also because my sister (who used to baby-sit for friends) informed me that *ALL* small children *LOVE* the Teletubbies, zero exceptions. So on that note I went to the CBeebies site and I was amazed.. Indeed it was love at first sight. Kid is not yet one and a half years old but she actually kissed the screen! (mental note: get grounding wire installed on the electrical outlets)

So with that as encouragement I gave p1p'd download recommendation another try, figured out that it was just my company network being nasty about downloading such things and just did it at home, after opening the router firewall to use with uTorrent. Worked very well!! And indeed you get a choice of languages that you wouldn't likely find in Thailand.

> Amazon.com is your friend or if, like me, you require British English then Amazon.co.uk is your friend.

Hah, any kind of speak that doesn't sound like Muang or Lao will do at the moment.

Also downloaded some kids animal videos, see if I can get the kid to stop calling everything with four legs "maaaa?" (=dog). This is highly irritating just watching animal planet, when there's a lion and the kid goes "maaaaaaa?" -"Noooo honey, it's a lion. Then there's a buffalo and the kid goes "Maaaaaaaaaaa?" -Noooooo honey, it's a buffalo. Then there's a squirrel and .. well you get the picture. Also I hear at seemingly random times 'Maaaaaaaa?' when she's observed something dog-like, and I have to look around what it is and then correct her. (-Nooooo honey, it's an AT-AT Imperial Walker) Well anyway. I wish she'd just grow up a little so I can start playing with the Star Wars and Ferrari Lego sets I bought for her when she was a 5 month unborn foetus. Next kid better be a boy because I've got a huge list of toys to go through that I was deprived of myself as a kid.

Edited April 4, 2007 by chanchao