To put tv on first thing in the morning

[EdgyCrow]

As a family, we have always been quite firm with screentime. I am a teacher and have experienced lots of negativity to do with screen acess in the children I have taught. My children (4 and 7) do not have devices and only watch BBC programmes. We have always had the rule of no tv before school and they used to play beautifully but now squabble and make mess and its stressful getting out of house and I'm wondering if I'm needlessly making my life harder. If I just put on Cbeebies, they would give me peace to get everything done but I feel guilt... what are peoples thoughts on tv in the mornings? Am i being unreasonable by putting ut on?

I really think there are worse things in life than watcbing tv.

No not at all.Calmer start for all!

We do weekend mornings. Lets us be zombies

I feel soo guilty about TV all the time but at 0630 when I need to get all the morning stuff done it goes on :( I kid myself that number blocks is marginally better but I know it’s not!

Why BBC only? Look at how they edited Trump for that TV show. You might want to consider other channels.

I don't consider having the TV on to be screen time...I know it's a screen but I just don't think it's the same as having a handheld device to stare at. I'd put it on

Just make sure they're dressed first so their 'tricky' bits are done

I have to. My kids are early risers and theres only so many games I can play and books I can read at 5.30am before i get immensly grumpy

No adverts and cbeebies is actually pretty good, i mean, asduming the OP isnt letting them watch the trump coverage?

This, nothing wrong with it at all.

It’s your house and your kids, do what you like!! Nobody is going to come over and police your mornings!

Only watch BBC?! Jeez I hope they grow up knowing fact from fiction 😂😂

My granny had the TV from morning til night. I lived with her for much of my childhood.

For her it was:

• entertainment - the shows she liked she'd actively watch
• comfort. She was on her own most of the time and having the background noise was a comfort.
• habit - she'd clean whilst listening what was going on. Which actually meant she was really well informed about all sorts of shit. She was surprisingly knowledgable about modern music!

The flip side? I loved TV so much I made it my career. I also cannot work in silence and need the TV on or music to be able to concentrate.

It didn't ruin us.*

I genuinely cannot remember if mine watched TV before school but if they did it was material made for them. Watching miniscule vertical videos from randoms for endless hours on phones or tablets however... I'd prefer if mine were watching things made for their age group that were well produced and had some value. Although I fear mine possibly watched more than their peers, due to my job. Again, it didn't ruin them and they are far less addicted to their phones than I'd expect.

*may have ruined my gran, who thought the reconstructions on Crimewatch were the real deal and she couldn't understand why the police hadn't arrested the villains when they had them on tape.

I had two early risers and had a TV in my room so they could watch TV and met me semi snooze, actual no chance of any sleep but l would of taken that snooze at 5.30am.
Only watching the BBC and nothing else is more weird.

Cbeebies in the morning is like a visual timetable for my 2. They know which programme they need to be dressed by and doing teeth 😂

I don't even know what to say 😂😂

this!

TV is just not an option in the morning in my house, unless they are really ill, but so what? My choice.

Some parents do find it harder to drag the kids out of the tv to leave on time, so it doesn't work for everybody, but who cares. The childminder had the tv on in the morning.

I don't allow the TV to be on on school day mornings. We'd never get out if the house. They already take an hour to eat a bowl of cereal with the radio on.. The weekend they can watch till their eyes go square.

I’d rather have the tv on in the morning than the kids getting messy art stuff out to play or getting dirty in the garden or setting up a game when they’re going to need to leave half way through. With live tv they can learn what point in the schedule they need to leave the house so it helps with timekeeping.

I do this, especially since removing the ipad on school mornings. Tv is much less zombifying to kids and more social.

Oh for god's sake. The whole speech Trump made is actually worse than the edit. Every speech, every interview will be edited in some way. Very few people speak in nice rounded soundbites. And there ain't a news programme on earth that can cope with broadcasting the entirety of the ramblings of the Cheeto in charge. Even Fox/GB news will edit. All. The. Time.

The mistake they made is not buffering the edit with V/O or doing a white flash to make it clear it wasn't a continuous comment.

But sure, carry on believing that at any moment the BBC will be editing Tinky Winky to be left wing and GROOMING YOUR CHILD INTO A COMMUNIST.

This was me.

If you get dressed and eat breakfast and brush your teeth you can watch Sailor Moon before we go catch the bus.

It worked and it stuck as a morning habit.

Many years ago, I was a childminder for about a year.

I had three DC of my own at this point, aged 10, 8 and 3.

I remember a woman who brought me her 4 month old PFB every day, who commented rather sniffily that the TV was on "very early and every day".

I expect hers would have been too, by the time she had three children of her own, and her PFB was an infuriating seven year old with two squabbling younger siblings.
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Honestly, chill out

Same!