MSE Parents Club Part 15

SusanC_2

jillie1974 wrote: »

am i the only one who doesnt put kids tv on??

when i do, K never seems bothered and goes off to play with his toys instead. i take that to be a good thing as i dont want the TV to be the 'entertainer'. he has great fun playing with his toys and books. in fact he turns the tv off most morns and i never turn it back on. just listen to the radio on the laptop. althought today i have one of the music channels on playing christmas songs while he's asleep.

I think it was only when she was a little bit older than K that Alice started to actually sit down and watch things really. Generally I'll only put something on (either iPlayer or video/DVD) if she requests it, if I feel like I need a rest or occasionally if I want to do a job where it's helpful if she's well occupied and not wandering round. Sometimes she/we watch something more or less every day every day, other times weeks can go by without her watching anything.

Evansangel

We have it on but Lily only watches waybuloo. She's been asleep the whole time its been on, i just had it for background noise whilst i was on the laptop lol.

But she's awake now and is trying to attack the laptop so im off.

jillie1974

we dont even have it as background noise....

just dont see the point of it for babies/toddlers. K moves from toy to toy after a few mins so hasnt got the attention span of the 15-20mins the programmes seem to be on for.

although he was watching the Bob the Builder christmas video....he was probably thinking 'what awful music is mummy listening too' :rotfl:

delain

Evansangel wrote: »

We have it on but Lily only watches waybuloo. She's been asleep the whole time its been on, i just had it for background noise whilst i was on the laptop lol.

But she's awake now and is trying to attack the laptop so im off.

Is it wrong that I really really like Waybuloo?

aless02

delain wrote: »

Is it wrong that I really really like Waybuloo?

No, so does my husband! :eek:

We don't really watch kids' TV here either...very occasionally I'd stick it on in the hopes of entertaining him during one of his super-fussy spells...sometimes it work, most of the time it wouldn't! DH puts it on much more frequently because it's what he grew up with *cue huge eye roll*

Krystaltips

Caitlyn loves the TV... She comes and pokes you in the face with the remote to put on Mr Tumble... I blame DH... He can't do anything without the TV on for "background noise"

SugarSpun

Miss M is in love with Ivor the Engine but other than an episode or two of Ivor when I need her to stay still for five minutes or she's fussy she doesn't see anything else. I also try to make sure we're watching it "together" so if I'm in the room I'll talk about stuff that's happening, like, "Oh that's funny that Mrs Portee said that, she thinks Ivor's been kidnapped but we know where he is don't we?"

jillie1974

i loved Ivor the Engine as a child. is it the old version or some new swanky CGI version like they did with Thomas Tank??

SugarSpun

Totally original - I tried her with the Clangers as well but she didn't like it. Bagpuss is next on my list in case she gets bored of Ivor. My main concern is that she loves the music and it's all hymns. There's only so much Cwm Rhondda and Land of my Fathers I can stand!

Mazcabs

SugarSpun wrote: »

Totally original - I tried her with the Clangers as well but she didn't like it. Bagpuss is next on my list in case she gets bored of Ivor. My main concern is that she loves the music and it's all hymns. There's only so much Cwm Rhondda and Land of my Fathers I can stand!

What great taste your daughter has in Tv programmes....funny we tried Henry with Clangers yesterday and he wasnt that bothered either... kids these days have no taste :rotfl: