Hi,
My 8 month old seems to love the TV - he will watch anything that happens to be on, but is particularly keen on some of the sketches on 'Baby TV'.
He will sometimes watch TV open mouthed and will look around people to see the TV - all of which I find a bit worrying tbh.
All of my mummy friends allow their children to watch TV, and, in most households I know, a TV is on all the time as background noise etc (sad I suppose, but a sign of the times perhaps!).
So my questions are, is TV really be damaging to babies? And how? Why is it so frowned upon to allow babies to watch TV?
I don't want TV to become an issue in any way, I'd like him to grow up a bit blasé about TV, iPads, iPhones etc etc.
What do you do? TV on all the time; TV free days; no TV at all ever?
Thanks
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Baby watching TV - is it really that bad?
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Mumtoason · 04/02/2014 20:31
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