to think that children's tv should end at 6pm

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at the latest?

i think it makes them more hyper. yes i know i can turn off but it isn't that easy.

Children's TV stops when you turn the TV off. It does in our house anyway.

Unreasonable for it to stop entirely at 6pm though IMO. DD is most likely to see a bit of TV after 6pm, not before. For DD TV helps her slow down and chill, same as it does for me too TBH. We then have other forms of chill down and ready for bed stuff after that.

hmm that's a good idea emsmum, just have to work out how to set the timer. i'm pleased i posted - have had a couple of good ideas.

suppose it doesn't help that i plonk myself on here too at that time.

We used to have a timer on the tv.

No arguments... it just turned itself off... as if by magic

Just noticed someone else did the same

I'm not the only eveil mummy, then! It's really easy - the timer has little pegs all the way round equivalent to every 15 mins of the 24 hour clock. So you just set it to go off at 6 - then it will work again later at whatever time you've set. They also have an override switch, but don't ever let the DCs see you reach behind the telly to flick it!

We're all addicted to in the night garden at 18:30, including 10 month old DD, she's glued start to finish and then quite chilled before rest of bedtime routine

Gives ME a chance to talk to DH who is in the car a long long way from home, driving back to his hotel, where ever in the country he is... its a godsend we all watch it at the w/e

I can sympathize as i too have a strong willed child.
It is something you have to stick to though if it makes the child more hyper.
The big problems come when it's "Still light outside mum!!!" - this makes the TV issue a piece of cake.
I have lots of story tapes - ds loves them. Look in charity shops for them until you find the type he really gets into. Sometimes it's the stories aimed at a younger age that works - easy listening for them so real chill stuff

If you have sky plus or equivalent, record two or three programmes and watch them when it suits you. When they have finished TV is over for the day. Don't get involved with live TV.

oh our tv goes ON at 6.30pm

for Little Bear which I don't particlarly like

but it is part of their routine, pj's on, on sofa for a cuddle for LB

then off to bed at 7pm

dh does dinner in the meantime

works in our house

I find that if the tv is on, the will sit annd watch it

if it is off, they will play or colour or whatever

so it is OFF until 6.30pm as I am in charge and I say so

Its great having late night childrens t.v if dc are oorly and cant sleep.

oorly, even

arghhhhhhhhhhhhh, poorly

I despise children's television. Some of what is on cbeebies such as autumn watch is bearable but I can't stand the commercial stations because more of it is adverts than programming and all the programmes are animated crap with not a live human being in sight.

And I find that if I don't allow ds to watch it, his behavior is much, much better - television is like a hipnotic tool and i really truely wish I had never introduced ds to it.

But I make the rules and television goes off when I say so, and if he creates a fuss about that then it gets banned for a week, so either way I rule .

OliveOil, you should switch it on a 6.20 for Kipper (before Little Bear).

We love Kipper.

I find it a nice, winding down part of the routine - Kipper and LB are very gentle programmes, and almost a teeny bit soporiphic, with their quiet music and soft voices.

Mmmmmmmm. Just feeling myself drifting off

YABU

If you dont want them to watch it, switch it off.

I'm sorry but I think blaming TV going off on the timer or the broadcaster is simply storing up discipline problems - TV goes of because you say so and you ae the parent - don't make excuses for laying down boundaries.

The only time my kids usually watch TV is after 6 - we don't have it on during the week, but Friday and Saturday nights they get to stay up late and watch TV from 7:30 - 9:00. Then we get a lie in on Saturadya and Sunday mornings

(though I have to admit to having TV on pretty much all day today - vomitty dd is incpable of doing anything other than staring at the screen)

I agree completely Prufock.

Ds is much younger, so I may have to eat my words in a couple of years, but I find that setting the rules beforehand really helps. For instance, he loves PoissonRouge and would throw a tantrum when it was time to stop, so one day when he asked to go on the computer I said that PoissonRouge made him angry and perhaps it would be better if he didn't use the computer until he felt strong enough to stop when asked without whinging. Now he doesn't whinge because he knows I would say "I don't think you should use the computer for a while, it's making you whinge".

Same for tv, I say I'm only turning it on if it gets turned off after xx programme without a fuss. Although, tbh, he's not that keen on tv and often turns it off without being told to, sometime in the middle of one of my programmes when I've just nipped out to put the kettle on.

Stop kids' tv at 6pm? What, no In the Night Garden...?
Not all telly is evil u know!

we should just have bbc nd classical music from 6pm

Yes.

Only time my dcs really watch it is between about 6.40 and 7.00 after their bath while drinking milk, part of our bedtime routine which currently works so please, please, please don't touch.

I love Wonderpets, and so does DS, and we watch it together (taped) at 7.45 most nights. Two episodes of Wonderpets, clean teeth, bed. No probs.

He watches about half an hour total of TV per day.

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How can you not like wonderpets

I love Wonderpets, and so does DS, and we watch it together (taped) at 7.45 most nights. Two episodes of Wonderpets, clean teeth, bed. No probs.

He watches about half an hour total of TV per day.

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How can you not like wonderpets

Just switch it off and let him paddy about it. He won't do that every night. Give him plenty of warning, then coulnt down from 10, then off. End of.