philosophy

The "Jack, the Cuddly Dog" video series is based on a process of research and study of children’s education and cognitive development. Our main goal at Hello Baby Productions has been to create a form of edutainment that is (to borrow Harvard professor Daniel Goleman’s terminology) "emotionally intelligent."

Our criteria for emotional intelligence has been the following:

1. Creating a warm, nurturing character that young children can relate to and feel comforted by in the same way that they find comfort in a teddy bear or special blanket.
   
   
2. Creating a warm feeling in the viewer by using hand-drawn animation rather than computer-generated images.
   
   
3. Stimulating the auditory senses and cognitive benefits of rhythm and harmony in music with a genuine acoustic piano by an expert pianist.
   
   
4. We don’t devote larges sections of screen time to showing plastic toys or stock footage - instead we show animals one can see in the yard next door, in a park, or on a farm. We focus on beautiful and meditative shots of nature combined with images of other babies, colors and shapes, animals, (and of course and lots of dogs :-)
   
   
5. Babies are amazing and precious! We want to give them the very best we can offer. We want to help them delight in the world, learn and laugh with us and grow to be happy, healthy and wise human beings. We hope you enjoy "Jack, the Cuddly Dog!"