To be mad at DH for sticking DD infront of TV for 2 hours

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2 solid hours of peppa pig. I was raging! DD is 2 and he gets limited 1:1 time with her due to work

My dc have watched loads of tv and 2 hrs of peppa pig would have been pretty standard.
As long as he’s spending time doing some things a bit more interactive with her too, I wouldn’t think it was an issue.

Making memories? She's 2, she will literally have zero memories of this time.

OP save "raging" for something that matters. You are undermining yourself. When he does something really bad it wont matter because your reaction will be the same as when she watched a bit of TV.

Love Peppa

I was pregnant with dd2 when dd1 was that age and had awful morning sickness. She watched a lot of Peppa Pig for a few months.

She’s nearly 12. Weirdly, she seems to be turning into a fairly intelligent, nicely mannered young person. Even though she spent several months watching Peppa Pig for hours at a time. The mind boggles.

OP, chill. Really seriously chill. You’ve got a world of pain awaiting if you don’t.

Surely it meant they were both happy. Two hours full on entertaining a toddler is boring - don’t know how my mother managed it without daytime telly. Probably explains why she’s so crabbit now.

Lazy parenting.
I know of a family who does the same.
Kids sat on the floor for hours watching crap.
And even eating off their lap.
Makes me soooo angry.
I did sat something once to the father.
His reply was .,,it makes them happy and keeps them quiet
No wonder they can`t converse.
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Bahahahaha! If you’re raging about this then high 5 yourself that you don’t have any real problems in your life! Mine are now older, exceptional behaviour, top of their school classes in every single subject and one watched in the night garden solidly at that age and the other loved Ben and holly. Rainy Saturdays would be all day TVs. Yesterday we watched back to back toy story and nobody got dressed or cleaned their teeth. Whatever. Just be thankful you don’t own a PlayStation. Your head would explode hahaha. Basically, chill out.

making memories

Probably the most vomit inducing phrase I keep coming across lately on the internet and SM...

Oh and nothing wrong with a bit of lazy parenting. Mine watched tv yesterday while I had a nice long nap. Best day ever. Hahaha

Puffhuffle5 agreed! You can’t make memories 24/7! They’ll be burnt out before they start school. Everybody so desperate to be perfect.

Makes me soooo angry.

Why does how someone else chooses to raise their child make you so angry? Haven’t you got things in your own life to worry about?

I think the vast majority of people have plonked their dc in front of the tv for a few hours now and again. I think 'raging' is a bit of an over reaction.

Well said 4strings. Be grateful she will sit for that long and watch it OP. Get all your jobs done. Leave her with DH and go shopping or other interesting things. In your situation I’d be buying a tablet, loading up Peppa pig and using that sucker on long car journeys too. Winner.

Probably the most vomit inducing phrase I keep coming across lately on the internet and SM...

^^ this

Tv pretty much raised me im sure

Same 😂 and I’m sure she’ll just end up glued to her phone like the rest of us anyway when she’s older

Surely it's up to him to decide how he spends his time with her. If that's what he wants to do it's not going to kill her. Maybe she had a great time watching tv or maybe she was bored. Either way, i'm sure she'll get over it.
If you want to spend your time with her in a different way, that's up to you.

I can see you point in being a bit pissed off if you think he's doing it rather than interact with her at all, but I have to admit when DD1 was little cbeebies had just started and we had it on all day .
She didn't sit staring at it all day, it was on in the background while she played and she did go out to play and I watched it and we still went out together. But it did her no harm whatsoever.

We have the tv on in the background when in but we only have 2 days at home not at nursery/work so I don’t see the harm! He doesn’t sit fixed on it! Just as background noise but once I had a bug and he pretty much spent the full day on blankets in the bath with an iPad playing peppa pig. Sometimes there’s no other choice!

Huge overreaction, her brain won’t melt.

It's fine. I mean peppa pig is the worst but I'm sure it's not going to stunt her cognitive growth. We're currently watching Blaze and the Monster Machines (well technically I'm being forced to watch it while DS plays with his cars), I'm too ill to argue. A couple of hours of TV never hurt anyone.

And most kids of that age won't sit glued to it will they? Most are playing at the same time I thought? I wish DS would chill and watch TV every now and again!

TV is a window on the world. Even Peppa Pig deals with issues that the average 2 year old won't personally experience in their daily routine. In 30 years time, I guarantee she will be nostalgic for the tv of her childhood, and won't remember her dad playing I spy with her or flashcards or whatever. And that's no bad thing. Don't you think back to Bodger and Badger or Poddington Peas with fondness?

Poor kid, scarred for life.....not

I get it OP. It's not the TV watching per se you have a problem with but the fact that he couldn't be bothered to spend quality time with your DD when he had the chance. I'd be pissed off with the lazy fucker too.

Get over it. Please.