To let dd watch TV?

[Lj8893]

Dd is 21 months and since she was about 1, she has been interested in the TV so I put CBeebies on for her. Now, when we are at home and in the lounge I will put it on as background noise. She doesn't watch a lot, but will watch Bing with huge concentration and also loves In the night garden. I don't feel there is anything wrong with her watching abut of age appropriate TV but have had a few comments from some people such as "oh I wouldn't let my dd watch TV at this age" and "why has she got a bing toy, she must watch a lot of it to know who he is" and when I have said things about dd loving bing I have had comments in perhaps a judgemental, superior way about how their dc wouldn't even know who that is.

I don't think I'm being U, but do start to doubt myself when I get comments like this!!

My heart melted the first time mine tried to blink. It mainly involved squinting through half closed eyelids! But the warmth wears off a bit when you hear "MR TUUUUUMBLE!!" Bellowed down the stairs

My dd is similar to Puppy's. She was a late walker but her language is amazing. I record her favourite CBeebies shows and she enjoys watching them and has learnt loads. We did baby sign classes when she was little and she loves mr tumble and is always picking up new signs. I think kids TV in moderation is fine, a lot of the CBeebies shows are educational anyway.

Don't you find though that just sometimes you need 10 minutes, just to do something. Putting TV on in these circumstances is a godsend. surely using a whole range of things to educate, entertain and keep the kids safe is fine.

Wish there was kids TV when mine were little.

It's nothing to worry about. My dd has always watched a certain amount of telly - not chained to it all day every day, but perhaps an hour in the morning sometimes, 30 mims of favourite programmes before bed, and even the odd film in between too occasionally if ill or after a tiring day (she loves Wallace and Grommet). Her vocabulary is very good for her age. A fair bit of CBeebies is quite educational, in my opinion.

Why is a bit of tv supposed to be bad? I get that if they are watching it 12 hours a day that is not good as they are missing out on interacting etc but an hour or 2 out of 24 - meh, anything for a quiet life plus beebies is educational!!

I have a strong interest here - I am '52 vintage and we did not have a TV until I was ten, and I have a DGniece, a year old on Monday, being brought up in home without one - I hope that turns out well. The parents know she will see it in other people's homes and are not too bothered about it.

Me and my brother used to watch TV all the time as children. He is a Cambridge graduate and works for a top investment bank in London. So i think its free to say it did him no harm

I don't use the TV as background noise and don't quite agree with this if I'm honest.

However, we do watch TV (some days too much) but it's an activity. We go into the lounge and sit and watch. Well DD does. DS is 17.5 months with the attention span of a goldfish

Nothing wrong with kids tv but on all day in the background then I would say no.
Couple of cartoons but all day isn't great even if they aren't watching it all.

It can't be that unusual to let kids of that age watch tv.

For example, Argos sell Peppa Pig pyjamas in size 18 - 24 months. There must be enough children of that age watching Peppa Pig, to make it worth their while selling them.

I don't think yabu, op

House fully of telly addicts here. My babies have watched Tv from very young. In fact one of my babies was very "high needs" (cried ALL THE TIME) and someone gave me a "baby Einstein" dvd which I put on when he was about 3 months old and he was mesmerised and stopped crying and I drank a whole cup of tea and it was the Best Thing Ever.

TV is great. Playing with kids is great. Going to the park is great. Computer games are great. The trampoline in the garden (lazy parenting at its best, I throw them on it and they are kept busy for hours) is great. We do it all. But goodness me we do love the TV.