Todays tip of the day

[anais]

"42% of three year olds in the UK have a TV in their bedroom. "

Discuss...

My 22 month old daughter has had a CD player in her room since the day she was born.

I played her classical music as she was going to sleep every day and since then I play her house music, reggae, jazz, classical and stuff like the Beatles and India Airie (sp) and ColdPlay etc etc.
I think it's great and love the fact that music, adult music, is such a big part of her life.

She gets to listen to kids music when I allow her to watch a bit of Bear in the Big Blue House and Maisy and Teletubbies. Other than that at the moment she doesn't watch TV - but when I need to keep her occupied and she's bored of her toys I let her watch MTV or some other music channel on Sky.

I've also bought her The Blue Planet and stuff like that on DVD.

At the end of the day in MODERATION and the right kind of programme, the TV is a just a big electronic toy that can teach them about their world, aid language and feed imaginations.

Thomcat - my dd is a music addict too! She looks from one speaker to the other when the music changes. Current fave is Nightmares on Wax, Smokers Delight, nice and chilled for her stroppy moments.

Not got CD in room though, obviously deprived

i'm with Tigermoth on the toy ads.i dont see the harm in it myself, dd knows she wont suddenly get them all and i can see if there's one particular toy she seems to love, dd always says "can i have that for Christmas............(or my appy birthday?)"...but whether she gets it we wait and see

AA Gill has said it before, but in the Sunday Times, he said again this week, 'most of what you know came off the box'.