Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

TV at nursery

39 replies

CotswoldCountryMummy · 23/03/2011 21:11

to expect them to have the TV on throughout the day at my 19 month old daughter's nursery? Some of the toddlers stand in front of it in a daze. I do let Flo watch TV sometimes but only for a limited time. The rest of the time she's outside running about in the fields or riding her pony/feeding the chickens etc. I think having the TV on at nursery is a bit of a cop out. Am i being unreasonable?

OP posts:
Halogen · 23/03/2011 21:14

Riding her pony at 19 months? How advanced...

yankiedoodledandy · 23/03/2011 21:14

YANBU I looked at 4 nurseries for DS, none of them had a TV even in the older preschool rooms. What a cop out, you can stick them in front of the TV at home for free!

RunOrRioja · 23/03/2011 21:14

YANBU.

That sounds bad to me.

They should be interacting with the children and doing activities.

A nursery my friends dd went to let them watch tv while they were eating. Not good at all in my opinion...

Thingumy · 23/03/2011 21:15

19 mths and riding a pony?

MissVerinder · 23/03/2011 21:15

YADNBU- TV at nursery? Fail.

4FoxAche · 23/03/2011 21:16

I wouldn't choose a nursery that ha a tv in it so no YANBU

CadleCrap · 23/03/2011 21:16

YANBU

fedupwithdeployment · 23/03/2011 21:16

Doesn't happen at my Dss nursery and if it did, I would be having words. I am a bit anti telly (they only get to watch it on Friday nights and at weekends).

Thingumy · 23/03/2011 21:16

are you getting at parents who allow their children to watch tv during the day perhaps?

MissVerinder · 23/03/2011 21:32

Oh, thingumy my 2.7yo DD is allowed to watch TV during the day, but only when she has completed her French, Physics and Latin homework, and been to Ballet. Grin

littleducks · 23/03/2011 21:35

Is her pony like this?

toeragsnotriches · 23/03/2011 21:43

Definitely never, ever TV at nursery. Wtf are they getting paid for? TV is for when the kids are killing each other and you need to leave them alone for 20 mins to make dinner.

MaisyMooCow · 23/03/2011 21:44

littleducks Funny! :)

Fourleaf · 23/03/2011 21:47

Is this for real? Riding her pony?!

bonkers20 · 23/03/2011 21:51

You should inform OFSTED. I am sure this would raise flags.
Have you discussed it with the nursery manager or your DS's keyworker?

Danthe4th · 23/03/2011 21:56

How do you know that some of the toddlers stand in front of it in a daze? is it perhaps only on at pick up time?

poopnscoop · 23/03/2011 22:03

YADNBU. BIG no no.

KaraStarbuckThrace · 23/03/2011 22:04

I don't believe this. I visited lots of nurseries when looking for one for DS and never found one with a TV.

DS is in the preschool room and they occasionally watch a cbeebies program on iplayer (they have a PC for the children to use, carefully supervised) which they sometimes use as pick up time to help occupy the children while the staff do handovers with the parents but I can't remember the last time I saw them doing this!

Thingumy · 23/03/2011 22:07

I thinking more on this line for little Flo

Oblomov · 23/03/2011 22:08

Both nurseries that ds1 went to, ( the second one where he stayed until school ( only moved him from first becasue I moved jobs), ds2 is now at, and they both had tv's. It is fine. I know how often they use it and it is little. and it is totaslly o.k. with me.

eloisah · 23/03/2011 22:13

Ds nursery shows dvds and childrens programmes ie the gruffalo, on the whiteboard in preschool room. Its only 15 mins or so while they clear up lunch. It settles the children before afternoon activities. Im fine with it.

TiggyD · 23/03/2011 22:15

My old nursery had a TV in it. As an experiment one day, I turned on CBeebies and left it on. Everybody watched it. Within 40 minutes there was not a single child left watching! They were too busy doing things.

TV can be a useful tool to enhance learning but it really needs watching with an adult who can make it 'interactive' by making comments and asking questions etc.

Original poster
CotswoldCountryMummy · 23/03/2011 22:15

certainly is! We're a very horse orientated family, for our sins... Granny bought her Tilly for her first birthday, but obviously she had to grow into her. She's been riding for a couple of months now, albeit with a LOT of assistance.(One to lead Tilly and one to hold flo just in case. Bought her first hat last saturday - could hardly believe that there was a size smaller than hers.
She loves it, sits up nice and straight and smiles away. :-)
Maybe i'm being ott about the tv thing, i just feel that she could watch tv here, and i wouldn't have to pay!

OP posts:
cfc · 23/03/2011 22:17

I'm LOLing at the thought of a) a 19 month old riding out (alone by the sounds of it!) and b) that it's just a case of "Oh Flo, can't you just go and have a ride on Taffy whilst I do the hoovering please?".

Original poster
CotswoldCountryMummy · 23/03/2011 22:20

no thingumy. If i thought that parents allowing their kids to watch tv was wrong, i would come straight out and say it. As i pointed out, Flo watches tv here sometimes in the day. I just don't want to pay £30 for the priveledge of her watching TV in a nursery.

OP posts: