Under 2's and TV

bylromarha

milliebear00001 wrote: »

LOL - really?! Never heard that one before...

I prefer the version that goes: "...and those who are defensive and feel judged, shoot the messenger".

Back to your reports lady!

I think we're all in agreement that too much TV is bad, screens are fine in moderation, parenting is much wider than making sure crayons are in the house.

All happy?!:rotfl:

abby1234519

I have no problems with my 10 month old watching TV. He is at nursery 4 days a week and is in a very non-television environment, the nursery is very lovely and they sing, play outside etc. Helps that it is a small nursery. And I'm convinced the fact that its in an old victorian manor house helps (but I know it doesn't)

Cbeebies has been on all day today. But Joshua doesn't pay much attention to it really. He watches Mr Tumble and Mr Maker but thats it. He glances at it etc but spends most of his day bashing plastic bottles about. I like it for the background noise. I pay more attention. I think as he gets older I would perhaps reduce the amount its on, as he pays more attention. I think he is at the age now where it does not appeal to him as much especially when he is in nursery quite a lot and is used to playing

Cat501

bylromarha wrote: »

Back to your reports lady!

I think we're all in agreement that too much TV is bad, screens are fine in moderation, parenting is much wider than making sure crayons are in the house.

All happy?!:rotfl:

NO!! I've checked out Mr Bloom - not my type - and have ploughed through the thread looking for more eye candy suggestions to no avail!:D:D

On the TV thing - I never actively limited "screen time", educationally and socially this doesn't seem to have done any harm at all. Cue gasps of horror as I tell you my eldest, from the age of about 4 months, was stuck in front to the tv once a week to watch Strike It Lucky with Michael Barrymore. We'd noticed that as soon as the music for that came on, she'd direct all her attention at the telly - no other tv interested her, not at that age anyway! She was a very wakeful baby who always demanded a lot of stimulation so really it was a bit of a godsend once a week to be able to plonk her down in her chair in front of the tv to go goggle eyed for half an hour

milliebear00001

bylromarha wrote: »

Back to your reports lady!

I think we're all in agreement that too much TV is bad, screens are fine in moderation, parenting is much wider than making sure crayons are in the house.

All happy?!:rotfl:

LOL! Mine are all done - yippee!

And yes, I am quite happy with that assessment :T

jellyhead

milliebear00001 wrote: »

This is often openly discussed by the parents if you ask them: "loves the DS - can't get him off it", "better on the Xbox than I am!" sorts of comments. If you ask the children what they were doing the night before, it's often gaming/watching TV etc.

I don't have a particular problem with school-age kids using screens in moderation. It is a particular problem with preschoolers though, who really need so much more talk time and really don't benefit from a screen at all.

I'm not arguing with you but I wonder how many children actually did nothing more interesting than gaming the night before, or if that's what they remember because it's their favourite part?

My son told his teacher that he'd spent the Easter holidays gaming and having pyjama days. He'd been to the zoo with his grandparents, the cinema with my husband, a playbarn with several of his classmates, a birthday party, den-building in a forest with a friend who was sat on his table in school, dog-walking over some stepping stones, a picnic at the castle, easter art activities etc ... yet he told the teacher he'd done nothing much except 3DS and gamecube. I think he's quite proud of his gamecube because nobody knows what it is (it was second hand and is ancient), and the 3DS isn't even his, and the 3D is turned off before he touches it. He's only allowed it on journeys that will take more than an hour, yet he made it sound as if he plays with it whever he feels like it :eek::o

The teacher was talking to me about his poor writing, and asking if we could discuss something that he could write about the following day, so we could talk about enough details for him to form more than one sentence (he's in year 2). She said some children actually hadn't done anything more interesting than watch TV, but had written about walking to Granny's house or whatever. My son stares blankly during these lessons and can't think of a thing to write. I wonder if they talk about him in the staff-room, and think that he has so much screen time that his memory and concentration are affected, and I'm a disinterested mother

I asked him why he hadn't written about one of the activities we'd done, and he said that gaming was his favourite part because it's so exciting.

Metranil_Vavin

Nice to see my thread has opened up a bit of lively debate

I try and talk to my son as much as possible, and I'm really proud o him as at 17 months old he has a good array of words, can point to a 'door' and a 'clock', knows what 'keys' are and asks for more 'toast' at breakfast

I tend to keep him away from my iphone (which he constantly wants to grab) more because I don't want it broken. Occasionally OH will show him little video's of himself we've maybe taken, but apart from that it's off limits.

I put the telly on occasionally in the late afternoon as we're getting dinner ready, but he genuinely isn't that interested and will often toddle out of the room to find something more interesting to do.

He does also love that under dog advert too though! He giggles like a loon when that comes on!

milliebear00001

jellyhead wrote: »

I'm not arguing with you but I wonder how many children actually did nothing more interesting than gaming the night before, or if that's what they remember because it's their favourite part?

My son told his teacher that he'd spent the Easter holidays gaming and having pyjama days. He'd been to the zoo with his grandparents, the cinema with my husband, a playbarn with several of his classmates, a birthday party, den-building in a forest with a friend who was sat on his table in school, dog-walking over some stepping stones, a picnic at the castle, easter art activities etc ... yet he told the teacher he'd done nothing much except 3DS and gamecube. I think he's quite proud of his gamecube because nobody knows what it is (it was second hand and is ancient), and the 3DS isn't even his, and the 3D is turned off before he touches it. He's only allowed it on journeys that will take more than an hour, yet he made it sound as if he plays with it whever he feels like it :eek::o

The teacher was talking to me about his poor writing, and asking if we could discuss something that he could write about the following day, so we could talk about enough details for him to form more than one sentence (he's in year 2). She said some children actually hadn't done anything more interesting than watch TV, but had written about walking to Granny's house or whatever. My son stares blankly during these lessons and can't think of a thing to write. I wonder if they talk about him in the staff-room, and think that he has so much screen time that his memory and concentration are affected, and I'm a disinterested mother

I asked him why he hadn't written about one of the activities we'd done, and he said that gaming was his favourite part because it's so exciting.

LOL - well they might talk about him in the staffroom I guess. I'm not going to pretend we don't! I understand what you mean about children not giving the whole picture - mine are the same when I ask what they did at school - "nothing" being the standard response! I don't assume what children tell me is entirely the truth though. I have plenty of evidence about amount of time spent gaming from the parents too!

When parents come in and kick off about something their little darling has reported back to them, I always point out that I never assume what a child tells me about home and parents is the full picture, and it would be good if that courtesy could work both ways.

If you're comfortable with the amount of time your son spends on his screens, and that he does lots of other stuff too, and that he's reading well etc, then you have nothing to worry about! Talking about something he could write about will be a big help though (I actually get a lot of boys' writing that is clearly linked to video games they like to play - edventure type stuff - and have no problem with that unless it's particularly violent!)

Tigsteroonie

Cat501 wrote: »

my eldest, from the age of about 4 months, was stuck in front to the tv once a week to watch Strike It Lucky with Michael Barrymore. We'd noticed that as soon as the music for that came on, she'd direct all her attention at the telly - no other tv interested her, not at that age anyway!

Andrew loves the music they play on BBC News to fill the odd 30-60 seconds at the top of each hour ... but once they cut to the news readers and the actual news, he loses interest again

eta.

Just looked at the thread header and seen it says "Under 2's" - heck, Andrew will be 3 in August :eek: Oh well, he's only around aged 2 in terms of development, so it's still relevant ...

jellyhead

mine's 6 and I'm still talking about him on the thread I remember what hi life was like before he was 2, even though he himself can barely remember yesterday.

bylromarha

milliebear00001 wrote: »

LOL! Mine are all done - yippee!

And yes, I am quite happy with that assessment :T

Wanna do mine then? I still have 10 to go...