Does anyone really manage the 'no-tv until they're 2' thing?

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Really? anyone??

only with the 1st one!

I sometimes manage no tv til 2pm...

Oh my god, i've only got one and I didn't manage anywhere close to 2!

Does your first-born demonstrate above average intelligence and social skills down to the no TV?

Ahhh Pascha, somneone to make me feel a little better..i am lucky if we make it to 7 am

Yep :). So far I've managed it until 4.5 years old.

But then, we don't have a TV :D

Not if you have a small age gap and struggle with pregnancy. My eldest watched almost no TV until I was stuck indoors with a bored toddler and dozing off on the sofa every afternoon.

Well with DS I managed (he loves books and was an easy toddler, so no need) without TV till he was nearly 2. DD was born when he was 21 months and soon after Cbeebies became invaluable! I don't whether it was because he didn't have TV when he was younger, but at 3.5yrs now he loves TV and would watch it all day if I let him, so I have to restrict it to an hour a day max.
DD has grown up around the TV being on when DS is watching his programmes. So has had small doses of it, she is 22 months now. She doesn't care much for it at all, will watch for a minute or two and then wander off to play. Will watch Peppa Pig though. On the otherhand, DS is transfixed when the TV is on, will not do anything else.

But (not sure this is anything to do with TV viewing, but I think it could be), DS was a very early talker, who spoke in sentences before 2, great vocabulary and clear speech. DD is way behind him in terms of speech at her age.

yes we don't have a TV either, it is Cbeebies on Iplayer!

Easily with the first one until her sister was born when she was 2 1/2. Gone downhill since... although we have no TV and only use iplayer on my computer.

I did with dd1 but she was a very easy child and good at entertaining herself (and still had 2 nap a day until she was over 2).

dd2 was absolutely not an easy child and I tried very hard to get her to watch tv from a young age! However she had no interest at all until she turned 2 (and has been addicted to peppa pig ever since!)

I planned to try to hold out till 2 but from 18 months I've had it on occasionally as I am so tired at the moment. TBH DS is more interested in the remote control than the TV so maybe I'm lucky to have a child who is not yet very keen to watch CBeebies.

Yes it's quite easy when you don't have a tv!

It's a godsend when DS is poorly as it keeps him still. Other than that he never watches much anyway

Yes with pfb dd1 but am more relaxed about tv now. DC arent' really into tv yet but of course I stick them in front of it when I need to!

We don't have one. DS is 2.5 years. So far he's watch steam train videos on YouTube once with DH and a few viewings of a video I took of a Wickes lorry delivering concrete to our house.

He's an 'easy' child though, good at entertaining himself for long periods.

Very easy when you don't have tv! It also means you don't get swamped with jumblybumblies or whatever all those things on CBeebies are called. We've got a couple of DVDs that the DCs watch an episode or two of at the weekends (Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, stuff like that). But that's it.

I didn't with no 1 until she was 2. I think it did her a lot of good. We've got a fab bond and she talks well etc. The new health visitor guessed she hadn't had tv when younger but didn't expand on how she could tell!

However now she is 3 she watches quiteta lot . . . And I suspect no 2 will be watching as no 1 is!

I have two children and the way we did it was no TV 6 days a week and on a Saturday afternoon they would watch a Disney Film which are about an hour and ten mins in length. We've done this for last four years. My youngest is four so it has been this way for her since she was born (not that she would watch it under one but her sister would...) As it is routine in our home it's our normal so feels quite easy.

Yes, with both dc. We have no tv either. Ds1 got to watch a bit of Thomas the tank or beebies when dd2 was napping when he was 3.
Now dd2 is 3.5 and ds1 is 6, they occasionally watch a bit of beebies at the weekend.

Hmm..got a contradiction here...DD1 never watched tv as we had no cbeebies and only ever saw the odd video once a month or so...very slow to speak and very unclear until she was 6 or so. DD2, 3.5 yrs later however was v. challenging, for that reason, on acquisition of a digibox, I put her in front of it at every opportunity. she talked at 12 months and hasn't paused for breath since.
DS1, was an average speaker and watched an average amount of tv, DD4 hasn't reallly watched any yet, being only 8 months, but time will tell with speech.
I really don't think a sensible amount of tv will kill them.

I did with the first one, was quite passionate about it as DSis was a researcher for Sally Ward. They still ended up with a speech delay as have ASD.
Didn't with the second!

I've never heard of the no TV until they are 2 thing.

So no I never managed it

Hahahahaha.

Oh sorry, you mean it. Nope, when DH was at work DS would watch/ listen to the music on In the Night Garden by six weeks three months, sat in his bouncy chair while I ran his bath.

Thank god for CBeebies.

I taught a child (age 10) who had never seen TV...

DS is 15 mo. We turn the tv on for two specific short Baby TV programmes (total 10 mins) every evening before bath. No other tv at all. We figure tv shouldn't be denied but should be rationed. 10 mins every day isn't going to warp his brain and because it's part of the routine he knows to go and sit on his bean bag and pays attention to the screen.

I hope he will grow up with a balanced view that watching something specific is great but not to have the tv on in the background or lounge around watching crap you aren't interested in. That's the theory anyway!

I do have a friend whose DCs never watch tv but they do watch DVDs of specific programmes e.g. fireman Sam a little bit every day. That's what gave us the idea.

If you have Sky, Baby tv is on 623 and is really good as there are no adverts and no whizzy images to befuddle young brains. Lots of songs, cute characters and simple images.