We needed head phones for our 3.5 year old son. The ones that stick in your ears kept falling out. These perfectly fit on his head, he actually has to extend the headband a tiny bit, so I wouldn't worry about them being too big. Sony Mdr-222Kd/Blk Childrens Headphones (Black)
Though this headphone is from Sony which normally makes good products, i have to say, its not very good. After only 2 weeks of use the connector broke. Though the rest of the headphone is fine, I found that it was not well made where the connector is.
To me it seems to be a design flaw. Fits well on children of most age under 12, but its design problems should be taken into account.
Sound is good, and does limit output so that children ears have less chance to be damaged, something that was a plus for it.
Bought this product recently for my third grader. Controls volume as advertised, though I still ask him to keep the volume below the max on his MP3 player. Unfortunately, the cord is not properly bonded to the miniplug, so only the wire is holding it together. I expect it to break entirely soon. It is clearly a manufacturing defect, not wear. Since these are not expensive enough to hassle with a return, I will try some glue. Generally, I expect better quality control from Sony.
I was so pleased to find these headphones! My twin girls discovered our old discmans (discmen?) a couple months before they turned nine. We were always worried about how high the volume was. These headphones don't allow the volume to go beyond a certain decibel. They also fit very nicely on their heads. Up until these headphones, they wanted to wear earbuds because the bigger headphones weren't comfortable.
In one of the descriptions I read about these headphones, it made me think that you could manually control the volume with the headphones. This is not the case, but it doesn't really matter. The one downside for us is that we can hear what they are listening to even when the volume is low. I don't mind this as much as my husband.
Overall, if you are going to let your kids use headphones, I highly recommend these!
We bought these in june 2008, for our 3,5 year old, so he could listen to DVD on the portable Sony DVP-FX930 9-Inch Portable DVD Player, Black when we were watching something else on TV or when we needed the silence. Being 'kids' headphone we expected this to work out well, but that was not the case. Altough reasonable good headphones, they did not seem to fit him as comfortable as we expected. He would fiddle quite a bit with it, and then to just take it off, and just wanted to watch and listen to the DVD with no headphone on. I suspect the headphone would move on his head and he would try to keep it in place till he got tired of it.
We then tried the Sony MDR-V150 Monitor Series Headphones with Reversible Earcups which we bought at the same time, but was intended for me. Guess what. These worked out much better. He actually keeps them one and watches a whole DVD with it on, without fiddling with it. He seems quite unawarre he has headphones on. I was quite surprised because I didn't think of it, but wasn't expected these 'grown up' headphones to fit him. But they did. Even much better. The earcups, altough bigger fits perfectly around his ears. The band adjust perfects to his head, and because it's wider, sits much better and doesn't fall off.
One point for buying these kids headphones is perhaps the sound-savety issue. If you are concern about volume issues, then perhaps you should go with these headphones, since they claim these kids headphones are saver,... something about keeping the volume low, so they do not harm there ears. But then again if kids won't use the headphone,.... what's the point. We personally don't have a problem with this. Our son doesn't like to have the sound loud. I always check the volume if it's not too loud for him, just to be on the save side anyway. He can actaully adjust the sound himself, but he rarely touches it. If he does it is to turn it down, not up. He keeps it on a reasonable low volume. So we are not concerned on this aspect.
So unless you are worried about volume-safety, why get these headphones, while you can get Sony MDR-V150 Monitor Series Headphones with Reversible Earcups for almost the same price?
I bought this headset for my 2-year old after one of the connectors disconnected on his Kidz Gear Wired Headphones For Kids headphone.
Although the description indicates these are designed for 8+, the headset fit over my son's head pretty well. However, the headband part kept slipping down and the spongy earphone material just didn't "hold" well on my son's ears. It might be that my son doesn't have enough hair for the headphones to grip/hold onto.
In comparison, the Kidz Gear headset had a double band which seemed to grip his head better. Plus, the earphones were made of a leather-like material which cupped the ear, rather than laying directly on it. The sound quality on the Kidz Gear was much better.
If I had to choose between the two, I would have to choose the Kidz Gear one. - Child Headphone - Childrens Earphones - Kids Headphones - Headphones'
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