Surprised my DD is actually learning words from Peppa ??

[peppapigfan2021]

My DD who is 1 and a half has actually learnt so many words from Peppa pig.

I limit screen time, but still feel guilty for letting her watch it at all. But she's probably learnt at least 10 words from it. She just shouts the words out when she's watching. It's really funny ! Very surprising.

It's scary when you google screen time, there are a lot of very scary articles about it.

I limit it as much as I can, but didn't realise she would actually learn stuff from it !

What does everyone else do ?

@NicknamesAreLikeKleenex

DM used to volunteer in a playgroup for British service families in Germany where the father was posted away for months at a time and a young boy of two or three came in who had speech delay. The doctors had checked him out and said he was just a really late speaker. The second day he was playing with some cars and babbling away to himself and DM overheard him - he was speaking rudimentary German because Anglophone mum didn’t see the point in talking to a child who couldn’t talk but did have the TV on all day for company (back in the day).

Not a criticism of you OP, I’m sure you talk to your DC loads, but a demonstration of the astonishing powers of the developing brain.

Yes, I learned Hindi and Punjabi in similar ways

DD, aged about 7 when asked to name a Roman Emperor for some reasons said “Nero? Julius Caesar? Heliogabalus?” How the hell did you know about Heliogabalus DD? The Horrible Histories effect strikes again.

She's not learning words from Peppa, she's learning words through hearing them, repeatedly.

Nothing wrong with a bit of TV, as long as you are interacting with her and speaking to her at other times too.

Just watch out for the weird voice

@DumplingsAndStew

She's not learning words from Peppa, she's learning words through hearing them, repeatedly.

Nothing wrong with a bit of TV, as long as you are interacting with her and speaking to her at other times too.

Just watch out for the weird voice

Haha yeah ! I was genuinely surprised because she saw something on Peppa and then we saw it in real life and she screamed out the name of it ! We don't have this thing in our house at all and I've never talked to her about it ! Amazing !

My daughter is nearly the same age and obsessed with Twirlywoos and In The Night Garden.

From the former, I think she learns lots of concepts from the repetition.

The latter, she sings all the songs and it's cute 😆

I personally interact with DD all day long so I don't think a bit of screen time is too bad when she is on her third 5am wake up in a row, I'm run down/tired and it gets to 4pm and I just "can't" function anymore, plus she's tiredhungry and dinner is cooking.... it gets us through that hour 😆

I once saw on Instagram that Ceebeebies can be self care too! I often stand by that.

Every parent feels the need to mention that they limit screen time, but watching some age appropriate children's TV shows is obviously very beneficial for children for this reason. Can't believe you're surprised!

Haha my DD did this too - she was hooked on The Wiggles though and even did the little finger wiggle along with them - cracked us up. TV definitely has its place!

@JemimaJoy

Every parent feels the need to mention that they limit screen time, but watching some age appropriate children's TV shows is obviously very beneficial for children for this reason. Can't believe you're surprised!

I've only heard bad things about screen time. Especially for under 2s. I thought I was abnormal / a horrible mother for allowing any at all !

Another one that can't believe you're surprised.

Why do you think children's TV is made the way it is? Repetitive, simple words and instructions, clear accents and voices? It's meant to have this result

My dd loved Team Umizoomi. I don't think it's on any more, but it was an animated thing to do with maths.

When she was about 4, she was playing with a shape made out of interconnected pentagons at nursery. An adult came and congratulated her for making a sphere. Dd's response?...

"It's not a sphere! It's a dodecahedron!"

There's some reasonable evidence that watching TV with subtitles helps their reading, and it's such a simple thing to do turnonthesubtitles.org/

@TroysMammy

When my niece started talking I thought she had a different accent to what we are used to, we are Welsh, until I realised she spoke like Peppa Pig. Luckily she doesn't now.

DH and i have Brummie accents but DD sounds ever so well spoken, and I think that's from watching Peppa Pig. I'm not going to discourage it though! Welsh accent is lovely, Brummie not so much 🤣

My DS was reading at 2 (I did read to him a lot) but learnt his alphabet and letters from watching Countdown. Not exactly aimed at kids but he loved it. We've got a photo of him watching it, lying on the floor on his back, hands behind his head , legs crossed at the ankles and feet on the TV cabinet.

Just make sure you teach her the words 'please' and 'thank you' as she definitely won't learn them from that oinking pink brat!

This is exactly why I don’t like putting peppa on, because they do learn from the telly to an extent

And peppa is a horrible spoiled little brat who won’t teach a thing on manners of behaviour.

@Toottootdrivers

My 19 month old has started saying go go go go whenever the Go Jetters come on . I think some screen time is fine as long as you still spend plenty of time talking/singing/reading to them.

Some programmes, such as yakka dee, are brilliant for speech.

My 14 month old sings the go jetters theme song too 😂 we’ve found having the TV on in the background is fine as long as we don’t want screen time to become a ‘treat’ so it’s something he gets fixated on. He can take or leave TV apart from Bing which puts him in some form of trance which is used in emergency situations only...

I sometimes beat myself up about screen time but watched so much tv as a kid! I’m really chuffed with how my DC is developing and agree that they have learned a lot of words from tv that he wouldn’t have necessarily just by chatting!

Cocomelon is the bane of my life. If I have to listen to “mummy finger, mummy finger where are you!” One more time 🤣

@PrtScn

Cocomelon is the bane of my life. If I have to listen to “mummy finger, mummy finger where are you!” One more time 🤣

Haahhahahah

I always thought that when people talk about limiting screen time that they meant non educational TV and games. When I realised that they meant any screen time I thought "shit I hope I haven't broken my dc's"

I've never really limited educational stuff. From when my youngest was about 6months I just put cbeebies on for pretty much the whole day, they didn't watch it all day but it was just on in the background to watch between playing. Both my dc's have learned loads from cbeebies, my 5yo is always telling me random facts that she has learned from the TV.

My youngest d's is autistic and was late speaking. He learnt a lot of sign through watching Mr tumble. I struggled to keep up with him 🤣

I can't remember being so strict with screen time when his 26 year old brother was little and he's fine so I don't beat myself up about the younger ones and tv anymore, especially after this last year!

You feel guilty for letting her watch a cartoon fgs

My DD is 19 months and learned a lot of new words from yakadee. That and the twirlywoos. Now its all duggie and jojo gran gran. But she still picks up a few words. Or at least it reinforces what she hears from me and books. She doesnt like peppa which im kinda sad about 😂

Children learn from everything. My son has learnt all his colours from the dreaded cocomelon, his numbers from numberblocks, he’s picked up sign language from mr tumble! Screen time isn’t all bad!