TV in pre-school

[WorkShirker]

My DS (3.3) enjoys pre-school, has been going 1 day a week since 1, now 5 mornings since he turned 3, but several times I have noticed they are watching TV or DVDs when I pick him up, I'm going to ask about this at the next parents' evening coming up soon, but is this normal practise? Don't think they did it in the 2 yr old room.

[misstrunchball]

Do they have lots of children to get ready for picking up? This could be a way to keep them contained with a member of staff whilst the others are getting the children ready.

I don't have a tv at my pre-school but occasionally (twice this year) take my laptop in with a dvd for them to watch. This is normally following on from a conversation with them about an interest and if I have a dvd suitable will take it in for them to watch. I normally have the laptop running a slidescreen of pictures if them all to look at.

[WorkShirker]

It is busy at the am/pm changeover, and they don't always do it, but as far as I can see it's just cartoons, not "educational TV". I just remember when I was looking at nurseries initially I discounted one out of hand because they were watching TV - perhaps I was being a bit PFB but I do try to limit it at home, and hoped he would benefit from interaction with other children at nursery, not just be sat in front of the electronic babysitter.

[bunchofposy]

Not quite the same (and a bit belated) but I recently found out that my DD watches the Fimbles in the evening with her childminder, while waiting for me to arrive. At first I was surprised, but it makes sense to me now (relaxing at end of busy day), and from what I can gather I don't think she did it before my DD was about 2.5.