Waterproof

Starring:Whitman Mayo, April Grace, Burt Reynolds, Cordereau Dye, Brandon Crawford, Ja'net DuBois, Orlando Jones, Anthony Lee, Lou Criscuolo, Al Wiggins, Gil Johnson, Leland L. Jones, Darrell Harlee, Joe Inscoe, Whitney Tucker, Chuck Kinlaw
Director: Barry Berman
Studio: Cloud Ten Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Great instructor
good guide for parents
Lifesaving Gift
If your kids are around water then Waterproof Kids them.
The Best Learn-to-Swim Instruction for Children

Waterproof Kids DVD
Starring: Gaylene Anderson
Manufacturer: Waterproof Kids
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ASIN: B00024ONDO
Release Date: 2004-04-21

Product Description

Winner of the iParenting Media Award 2005. A fun guide for teaching children to swim. Disc includes segments on babies 6 months to 2 years, toddlers 2 to 4 years, children 5 to 12 years, teens and adults, and a segment on open water swimming.

Customer Reviews:

Great instructor.......2007-07-04

This is a great video to start your child swimming on. The instructor is great. She starts off teaching babies how to swim and goes on up to adults. A great video to learn the basics of swimming.

good guide for parents.......2005-09-23

Like the title say....this video concentrate on guidelines for parents to familiazied kids with water, floating, some swimming technique for all ages. Recommended.

Lifesaving Gift.......2005-02-01

I purchased Waterproof Kids last spring. I am pleased with my purchase. I live near a lake. It's a popular place for kids of all ages to gather when the weather gets nice. One reads about a drowning every summer. Sadly, some of the drowning is among young adults who did not learn respect for the water.

Waterproof Kids is a great tool to aid parents in teaching their children that they could have fun in the water, and at the same time teach them to respect the water and its power. Coach Gaylene Anderson loves children, water, and teaching. She believes in her work, and it is reflected in her video. This is a great video to teach our children how to have fun and be safe in and around water. She demonstrates it in a clear organized step by step format divided into age appropriate skills from babies to adults. Gaylene's positive and enthusiastic approach is contagious. She emphasizes safety at all times. The "Before You Begin" and "As You Progress" summary at the beginning and end of each module is very helpful.

It is never too early to set the foundation. Waterproof Kids is a wonderful gift to give to family and friends that are expecting or who have just had a baby. It also makes a great tool for water instructors, and companion tool for parents whose children are enrolled in swim lessons.

Thank you for making Waterproof Kids available to the public. With a product like this on the market, I look forward to not hearing emergency vehicles pass my house on the way to the lake.

If your kids are around water then Waterproof Kids them........2004-08-12

I live in Hawaii and my son has been around water since he was 6 months old. He's now 2 1/2 years old and he has no fear of water. This has been very scary for me. On a couple of occasions while I was watching him he charged into the ocean as fast as he could run without a life jacket or floaties. He was up to his kneck before I could catch him. He can dog paddle and he knows how to hold his breath but he's still 2 1/2 years old. When I heard about Waterproof Kids I had to get it but I was worried about getting my son to sit through it. The first time I put it in he watched the whole thing with me from start to finish. We paused between the modules to practice on dry land some of what we had just watched. He loves the interactive part. He has since requested Waterproof Kids to watch on his own many times. When we are at the beach I've even seen him practicing some of the skills on his own. There is no substitute for an attentive parent when your child is around water but Waterproof Kids has given me a little extra peace of mind. I highly reccomend Waterproof Kids as must for kids who have been around water and kids who haven't.

Aloha From Hawaii,

John Ogrodny
Concerned Parent

The Best Learn-to-Swim Instruction for Children.......2004-08-02

Waterproof Kids is essential for all parents who want to give their children the gift of being safe and comfortable around water as well as helping them learn to swim. With a strong emphasis on safety Ms. Anderson shows us step-by-step everything we need to know from introducing infants to water to teaching teenagers advanced swimming techniques.

After loving the water as an infant, my almost 4 year old son when through a phase of resisting going in the water at all and he especially hated getting his face and head wet. After seeing Waterproof Kids my son took an interest in the wonderful video footage of Gaylene demonstrating various strokes and showing infants going completely underwater. Now it's his favorite DVD.

Since being introduced to Waterproof Kids and seeing other kids learning to swim, he now loves "getting dunked" and doesn't mind getting his face and head wet at all. In the last three weeks since he's been watching Waterproof Kids, he's made more progress in learning how to swim than all the rest of his life. It may be designed for patents to teach their children to swim, but the real benefit has been from our son watching it and becoming inspired and motivated.

I am sure that we will use the different modules of the DVD as we progress through from toddler, young children and teens. It's a good thing that DVD's don't wear out because it's going to get used in our house a lot!

Gaylene is bright, energetic, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and clearly loves what she does. Her positive energy is a delight. Give your kids and yourself a life-long gift of love for swimming. Get Waterproof Kids. You won't regret it!

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Bulletproof \o/
An imperfect but uplifting film
Must see film
Be Healed
A Very Good Movie!

Waterproof
Starring: Whitman Mayo , April Grace , Burt Reynolds , Cordereau Dye , and Brandon Crawford
Director: Barry Berman
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0002T7YI0
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Customer Reviews:

Bulletproof \o/.......2007-01-01

This WAS my all-time favorite Christian movie (until "Facing The Giants" came along), but it's still way, way up there on my short list & I surely loves it to death ...

Sugar (Whitman Mayo) is simply delightful (& if I could find a way to bottle his super-Sugar-sweetness & sell it, I would be a rich woman right now) & (although I never could bring myself to believe that he was an old Jewish shopkeeper) I did SO thoroughly enjoy Burt Reynold's performance as Eli Zeal & the way he was able to pull the right emotion out of every single scene &, really, all the actors did such a stunning job in this movie, it's hard to find any fault ...

There's also lots of really cool behind-the-scenes features (& some will probably make you cry just as much as the movie) & I find myself having to purchase this DVD over & over again, because I keep giving it away ...

An imperfect but uplifting film.......2006-11-04

This is by far the best of all the movies that Cloud Ten Pictures has produced. The film tackles many major issues - single mothers and the difficulty they have raising their children, family secrets covered up by lies, race relations, inter-faith relations, and others - and yet manages to do so without being heavy-handed.

Wayward young son Thaniel Battle is forced by two older gang members to rob and shoot Jewish shopowner Eli Zeal (Burt Reynolds). His mother, Tyree, doesn't know what to do, so she kidnaps the wounded Zeal and drives him to her estranged family in Louisiana. There her 102-year old grandfather will nurse him back to health while Tyree decides how to keep Thaniel out of trouble with the law.

As Zeal stays with the family he begins to sense that there are some dark secrets that need to come out into the open. He goes from being the one healed to the one who instigates the healing of the Battle family as he cajoles Tyree to reveal what it is that made her leave her family so many years earlier.

From a Christian viewpoint, there are some flaws with this movie. Zeal tells a lie in order to get Tyree to tell the truth, which seems to equate to it taking to wrongs to make a right. Also, once Tyree has revealed her secret, she wants to get right with God. She does this by simply being baptized into the local church; no mention is made of her accepting Jesus Christ into her life. I mention these points only because Cloud Ten is a Christian film company. If they are going to make Christian films that present redemption, then they should make sure that those films portray the true gospel message of that redemption being available only through Christ.

In spite of these flaws, this is still a wonderful tale of restored relationships. Burt Reynolds' performance is actually the weakest among the major characters in the film; he seems to be playing a Jewish stereotype rather than an individual character. Whitman Mayo (probably best-known as Grady on the '70's sitcom "Sanford and Son", though you'll hardly recognize him at first since he shaved his beard) is a delight as the aged grandfather. The rest of the cast did a fine job with their roles, especially Ja'net Dubois and Anthony Lee. I highly recommend this film as it addresses so many important issues that are prevalent in today's society and still manages to entertain rather than only to lecture or to criticize (that is, it won't turn people off by being too preachy).

Must see film.......2006-10-12

This movie has a well written screenplay. With a very strong character given plot. Which means all the actors had to act, and they did. Wounderful performances by the entire cast. In the world of action/adventure movies, this is a very nice change.

This movie is about faith, hope, and of redemption. Each character's story feels full and complete. It starts as we see a young boy forced to shoot a grocer in Washington, D.C. in order to be included in a gang. A single mother doing her best to rasie him in the inner city. We are quickly taken out of the city to her families home where she returns to a whole new set of problems. The dynamics of the family clan handling the situation will pluck the heart strings in anyone. A film that is good for the whole family to watch.

Be Healed.......2006-03-22

This is a movie that is worth watching and gets better as it goes on.
Burt Reynolds plays an aging neighborhood grocer who is shot by the young son of a single mother in Wash. D.C. The kid is a budding delinquent who is bullied into participating in the crime by some young thugs who push him to "prove himself".
The kid's mother finds him and the wounded man at the scene of the crime. She drives them both (she's a taxi driver by profession) to the family home in Waterproof Louisiana.The clan welcomes the prodigal daughter and grandson and tends to the wounded man. In the course of the visit the family history is revealed.
The actors are superb as they bring forth the story of suffering, guilt, redemption, and forgiveness.
It is surprising to see Burt Reynolds in this part but his confidence seemed to grow as the movie moves along. He displays sensitivity and ultimately avoids shtick in a role that was a real risk for an actor who established spectacular stardom in macho, action movies. This is a part completely foreign to his usual characterizations and he showed artistic courage and humility in shedding his image for the sake of a movie that was never going to make millions.
You may quibble about various imperfections if this movie doesn't meet your standard of political correctness and/or isn't mean enough to suit your social perspective. But the message will take hold of you anyway because the performances are that good.

Be sure to check out the cast credits which includes the marvelous talents of Whitman Mayo, Ja'net DuBois, April Grace, Orlando Jones, Anthony Lee,Cordereau Dye, and Gil Johnson

A Very Good Movie!.......2006-01-31

I found the whole movie facinating! I love the characters and they are played very well by the actors in it. I've watched three times sine I got it a few days ago. It keeps you wondering if they will ever go back to Washington D.C. The interaction between Tyree and Eli makes you wonder if they will have sequel to this movie especially toward the end.
As for the other reviewers criticism of the baptism scene it is more symbolic of her willingness to stop running away from two things--her past and her religion.
However, there were some things it could work on--like why Eli likes the church and doesn't get baptized--after all hew wouldn't have originally since he is Jewish and some of the movie doesn't seem to have any explanation as to why it occurs like Nattie, the man with the brain injury, as to why he goes swimming every night. I think they need a sequel just to explain what was left out and to elaborate on how close knit Eli actually gets with the family.
However, it is good movie and I recommend people to see it, if not for the interesting story line and characters, maybe for the comedic parts. It's good, clean entertainment and Christian enough for me, by the way.

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Waterproof Kids - Baby Steps
Starring: Gaylene Anderson
Director: Gaylene Anderson
Manufacturer: Waterproof Kids
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ASIN: B000FHYPU4
Release Date: 2006-04-05

Average customer rating:

Bulletproof \o/
An imperfect but uplifting film
Must see film
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A Very Good Movie!

Waterproof
Starring: Whitman Mayo , April Grace , Burt Reynolds , Cordereau Dye , and Brandon Crawford
Director: Barry Berman
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Customer Reviews:

Bulletproof \o/.......2007-01-01

An imperfect but uplifting film.......2006-11-04

Must see film.......2006-10-12

Be Healed.......2006-03-22

A Very Good Movie!.......2006-01-31

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