AIBU to have the TV on all day long

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I literally turn it on when we get up and then I have it on all day long. I'm at home with my 10 month old and I use it for company. The radio or podcasts just don't have the same comfort for me, despite being more interesting

Am I alone?

I do this sometimes too. Me and dd don't even watch it, it's just nice for me to have a bit of background noise!

I'm the same and I have it on throughout the night too during night feeds

I'm the same, it makes me feel like I'm not alone at home (even though I'm not as I have a toddler and baby)

It's literally all day everyday! I can't break the habit. Do I need to? I'm worried that I'm making my child into a TV addict too...

I do make sure I take him out a lot too and he has plenty of interaction with other babies and adults. I feel like a shit mum

I’m the opposite. Can’t bear to to have it on until later in the day.

Never understood this. How can you think straight?!

For me, YABU.

YANBU. I have the TV on all day, even if I’m not watching it. I can’t stand silence!

Mine's on all day everyday, and I have two under 2.

I couldn’t bear to have daytime TV on all day - the adverts, the crap shows... But each to their own.

Mines on all day, have 5 month old lb. Like for background noise

The American NHS equivalent have recently advised that children under the age of 2, should not be in front of screens AT ALL. Ever.

I went to a very scary talk at my eldest's secondary school recently, about the very damaging effects screen time is having on the young - a huge rise in children having problems sleeping, diabetes, cancer etc etc, so I've become very conscious of the amount of time my children (and my husband and I) are in front of screens/TVs/phones.

I tend to just have the radio on (Radio 4 mainly!) for company at home and only have the TV on later in the day....but it's horses for courses and we're all different!

@Panicmode1 Isn't that tablets and the like and more to do with being overweight?

When has tv every caused cancer? Link to a proper study?

I can’t have the tv on at all in the day. I have the radio on though as I do feel like I need something in the background.

I have the tv or music on all day it's background noise for me I don't like quiet

I couldn't personally. I wouldn't be able to think straight.

I am the opposite too. I am at home alone all day most days and don't put the TV on until around 4/5pm. I don't listen to the radio either. I like the silence.

YABU. Definitely a bad example to set for your children.
(imho)

Yabu
I hate this

If I am home and not sleeping, the TV is on. Just for background noise really, I don’t actually watch it until later in the evening.

Whilst I was on maternity leave I had the TV on all the time during the day. I felt so lonely and isolated it made me feel less anxious. If someone had told me I was causing childhood cancer and setting a bad example and other scaremongering bollocks I would have felt even shitter than I already did most of the time.

I was getting in to the habit of this then I noticed my three month old was watching it, literally straining her head back from her changing mat to see it. I now put on the radio (still through the tv).

Nope. Not good for adults or kids imo.

Not good and I think you need to try times without it.