Why: We’re really careful about screentime for our toddler. We do, however, use videos on multi-hour car trips. Funky Monkey’s Music Time from Punchbowl Productions is a half-hour video we’re happy to watch with our babe. It’s an animated lesson in the basics of music: rhythm, pitch and melody, and research tells us that musical education is a predictor of mathematical success. It’s filled with story-telling and original songs, and now our son claps along with the monkey as Monkey goes on his musical journey.