Now recommended no TV at all for under 3's

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Just seen on BBC news it is now recommended no TV at all for under 3's but can't find any info about it on their website.

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everything in moderation.

although can't possibly see whey one would have the telly on before school.

I don't watch TV but the children watch some. With the older 3 we used to have a no TV during the week rule at one point that worked well.

The early puberty in the Times article is interesting. My daughter whose periods started at 14 would be playing school sport every night and didn't watch much TV at all but that may just be coincidence and if those sports were in side under flood lighting then that would be as much light as in front of a TV screen. Surely it would only be if you had candles at home and went to sleep when it grew dark you could do a proper comparison.

My children watch less TV than we did as chidlren because they have more hobbies and other media too and we don't allow TVs in bedroom although the portability of their new lap top and discovery by the 8 year olds of youtube is leading to new policies needing to be formulated domestically.

ooooh i love baby einstein. i really think it's great. very trippy.

it's an average
lots of kids will watch more
some won't watch any
I know lots of dd1s friends watch this much tv (prob more)

LOL at the idea that TV causes autism! Presumably so do automatic washing machines, because my 2 boys certainly spent a fair amount of time watching ours.

Agree that children with autism are more likely to be interested in the TV in the first place. Both ds1 and ds2 were fascinated as babies by the TV. Dd, who I'm fairly sure is NT, has absolutely no interest in it whatsoever. Life would be easier if she did.

Bugsy laughs, thankful that her children are over 3 & she didn't have to worry about them watching the teletubbies when they were under 3.
This will be fun - cue loads of middle class angst, while no one else gives a toss!

The tv goes on in my house first thing. DS wakes up every single day by 6am. Without the TV, he would drive me insane.

But the middle classes restrict the viewing and their children do well and succeed and others ignore obvious things like too much TV isn't good and their children suffer.

Difficult to resrict it for an under 3yr old when you have a 10yr old and a 7yr old who watch it. Perhaps this is advice meant for those rare people who inhabit the ideal world....

Some of the bizarre, over-anxious mothers my children go to school with actually record programmes from milkshake & CITV so that their children can watch them without being subjected to commercialisation (adverts).
So, I'm sure there will be first time mums up & down the country who will be spending extra time with the playdoh & finger pains, rather than put teletubbies on for 20 mins!!!

I think we'd be better if they banned adverts on children's TV as they do in parts of Scandinavia. One good thing about mine using Skyplus is they rarely see an advert for sugar filled cereals etc.

oops! Too late!

Haha flamesparrow. My thoughts exactly!!! FGS!!!

Ahem

!!! my dd learnt(with the help of my knowledge) to speak spanish by the time she was 2..could count to ten say hello goodbye, thankyou etc...mainly down to dora the explorer..when she started nursery at three we were told she would be taught how to count to ten in english!!!!..we laughed and teacher was totally astounded when she heard dd count in both languages.

Oh FFS. How dare they suggest that a parents' actions may be responsible for autism?

Will the researchers realise that so long as A) it's in moderation b) it's child based and c) it's not a child's only source of entertainment where's the beef.

I think Sesame Street proves that TV can be positive for kids. Plus Cbeebies, Nick Jr, Baby/little Einstiens, Pocoyo Thomas etc etc

The TV is like moving wallpaper in our house. It's on but DS is always doing something else.

Scare mongering Scientists are the last thing we need

when we went to babylab at University of London (ds at 8 months) the scientists there said tv helped with concentration....
everything in moderation really...

DS1 watches TV for an hour in the morning and occasionally in the afternoon if I feel he needs calming down. He gets lots of fresh air and we do lots of other things together. He has learnt so much from the TV(things I wouldn't have thought to teach him, tbh) However, I don't think them watchjing it all day is good for them, but we already jknow that.

Oh, meant to add. DS1 isn't a particularly passive viewer of TV unless he's tired. Then he startys fly catching, at which point it normally gets turned off.

I just see studies like this these days and think:

"Well in my ideal world the children will never watch telly. Back in the real world I will limit it to half an hour/an hour per day as much as possible."

and I see studies like this these days and wonder 'How long before a study comes out that says children benefit from x hours of television, improves concentration, blah blah blah' I seem to have seen soooo many contradictory 'studies' over the years. Things are not as black and white as reports would make out. Moderation and common sense combined with knowing your own child is the key for me.

Another 'study' spouting rubbish.

I always wonder, 'People get paid for this? WTF. I'm in the wrong job.'

lol WWW.

She will be a wonderful Mum one day.

Oh arse to that.

I make my living watching TV all day. DS1 learnt the alphabet before he was two from watching Countdown when his baby brother was born