| Learning Resources Pretend and Play Teaching Telephone |  | Brand: Learning Resources
Category: Toy
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $20.20
You Save: $19.75 (49%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 13385
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 3
Batteries Included: Yes
Age: 3 - 6 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 3.6 x 12 x 12
MPN: LER2665
Model: LER2665
UPC: 765023013993
EAN: 0765023013993
ASIN: B00004TFXR
Release Date: June 12, 2006
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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Award winner | | • | Help children learn how to call home and the 911 Emergency Service | | • | Programmable telephone | | • | Plays preprogrammed messages | | • | Record a new message again and again! |
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Editorial Review
Kids love to emulate adults around them--give them the pleasure of learning to use their very own phone with the Pretend & Play Teaching Telephone. The bright red and yellow plastic unit measures 7 inches across and has large buttons for easy use. Program in a number (your home, for example) and record a message for the kids to hear when they get it right. There's also an emergency message associated with 911 to teach them what to do when trouble strikes. Other fun features include speed dial and an 11-digit display. --Rob Lightner
Product Description
With the Pretend and Play Teaching Telephone it's easy to teach telephone numbers that are important to your child! Program in any telephone number (with or without 1+area code). Record a message for your child. When your child dials the programmed number correctly, they hear your message! Program a new telephone number and record a message - again and again! Teaching Telephone features 11 digit display, big buttons for little hands, note pad holder with note paper included, handy telephone number reference and more! For additional teaching fun a Teaching Telephone Activity book is sold separately. Telephone measures approximately 7" x 7.5". Requires 3 "AA" alkaline batteries (included).Awards: - Dr. Toy, Best Children's Vacation Products (1999)
- Parent's Guide to Children's Media (1999)
- Child Magazine's Best Toys of the Year, Toddlers (1999)
- Working Mother Magazine's 30 Top Toys (1999)
- Parent's Magazine Best Toys of the Year (1999)
- National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors (1999)
- ASTRA Holiday Picks K-12 (1999)
- Babyzone's Amazing Toy Award Winner (1999)
- Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award (2000)
- Informal Educational Products Award of Excellence (2000)
- Toy Tips Trusted
- The Good Toy Guide, Recommended (2000)- UK
- Fox 8 Educational Top Toys (2000)
- NAPPA Honors Award Winner (2002)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Not working. Needs to return it April 11, 2008
The toy is not working. Only the green on/off light is on, occasional beep, totally silent otherwise, no display. I changed the batteries to no effect.
Now I need to return it. Very disappointed. Will see how amazon customer service deal with this and write a final review.
Great--until it broke in the second week February 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Learning Resource phone did in fact help my daughter learn our telephone number (helped by a incentive of a trip for ice cream when she did it)----and quite satisfactorily allowed a personalized recording of our voices to be waiting for her when she successfully dialed it (just the 7 digits---no area code).
I was looking forward to her playing with it for years---and then it broke. The entire middle row of numbers stopped "beeping" when pressed. I too, fancy myself as someone who can take apart and put things together---unscrewed the back and when I got it off, found the densely soldered network around the keypad unfixable (by me, anyway).
So, for the two weeks it worked, great!
And then it broke.
Rather disappointing overall.
disappointed January 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my son for Christmas, as he requested a toy telephone and I thought it would be beneficial for him to start learning how to call his own phone number and 911. First of all, it is difficult to program phone numbers into speed dial. The pamphlet tells you how but of course that was lost rather quickly. Second, within a few hours of my son receiving this toy, the sound stopped working. Changing the batteries did not help. Luckily my husband is pretty adept at taking things apart and fixing them, but it's safe to say that every other time my son takes this toy out to play with it, the sound is not working, and he has to wait for his dad to take it apart and reconnect some wires. I would not recommend this product. Definitely not worth the $$.
 great idea January 18, 2008
Great little phone if your kids will use it. Mine doesn't seem to care for it. I am hoping this changes as it could be a very good learing tool. I agree that having people call whom your kids do not know can be confusing for them. But, it isn't like you can't explain to them why it is different.
 Great toy! December 30, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As I mentioned in several other reviews, I have wasted a lot of money (unfortunately) this holiday season. I hope I learn for next year. This was NOT a waste. The Disney Princess phone I bought before this one was a waste. I bought that one thinking it was somewhat educational. It wasn't. So, I bought this one. Really, four year olds (even four year old Princesses) don't need a pretend phone with recordings of pretend Princesses. They really can use this phone, though. It's a great teaching tool.
Most households today have several different phone numbers-- in our home, we all have cells (except for my little one), and then we have the landline we rarely use. This is the only deficiency I see with this phone. It would be cool if it were able to recognize several numbers and if everyone in the household with a separate number were able to record a message. Unfortunately, you can only record one message at a time. Your child learns to call the phone number and if she dials correctly, she hears a previously recorded message from either Mommy, Daddy, or whomever made the recording. Once she learns this number, we'll go on to the next phone number.
Additionally, it's a great tool to teach 911 use. And, coincidentally, sometimes my husband teases her and pretends he's a zombie (this is in FUN, she laughs-- it's not scary). Anyways, when he did this the last time, she immediately called 911 on this phone and said, "Help! My daddy is a zombie! Please help!" So, needless to say, this is one of her favorite things to do now. She thinks it's absolutely hysterical.
I bought this with the Learning Resources Cash Register which is, in my opinion, also an excellent toy-- even better than this (if you're only going to buy one and can't decide). Now she puts them both on the table, and plays "work". She runs a store and gets on the phone occasionally as she handles all her customers. It really is a fun thing to do and both of these toys are so realistic and of very superior quality.
I can't recommend this toy highly enough. My daughter immediately asked me if this was real when I gave it to her. I said it's not real, but it would teach her how to use the real phone. She was thrilled and really enjoys learning how to dial the numbers on her own.
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