What do we think about no TV for under 3's?

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have a look at this here

Yup - that's gonna happen...NOT

I wouldn't be able to get dinner ready, have a shower or mumsnet!!!

Totally agree - LOL. GS has always watched TV (only 4 now) until two days ago when I have temporarily banned him from TV of any sort (Includes DVD's, his v-smile game, etc) and he's back to the lovely litle boy that we all definately prefer.

mine were too busy going to day nursery to watch TV

No mumsnet for me either without tele....

I have no problem with DD (3) watching a bit each day (some days more than others depending on what we are doing)..

Well ds2 could count to ten in Spanish by the time he was 3 courtesty of Dora the Explorer - so it's educational innit?

Nothing wrong with abit of TV. Just something else for Mums to worry about.

If we did everything we were told we would:
Never let children watch TV.
Ditto computers.
Not go back to work
Go back to work so child can go back to nursery and be socialised.
etc etc etc

Seems to me anything which means that the Mother (Fathers are rarely mentioned)does not spend 100% of her time focused on the child until they leave home could potentially mean the child will end up a master criminal, with no social skills or decent education.

Load of rot!

n0o tv here for dd

elec bills were through the roof so was easier to ban ouitright than be dealing constant whinging.

T.v is educational..my 2.5 twin knows loads of sign-language from Mr Tumble.
And little jobs around the house would be impossible to do if cbeebies weren't around!

We don't have a tv

I don't find it hard to find other things to do

neither do i, dd is equally as underfoot whether tv is on or off tbh.

probably would be more tempting to have it on if she was the type of kid to sit quietly and watch it

Well, he's got a book out on how television is damaging our lives, so I guess he's keen to publicise it. I'd like to see his evidence - has he done a proper meta-analysis of all published studies, casting out the ones that are too badly-designed to draw any reliable conclusions? Can't see anything on his site although there is ref. to the journal it's published in.

I would truly love to get rid of the telly but am much to much of a coward to contemplate it....nice in thought...a big hand to all who don't use them/have them.

A friend of mine didn't have the tv on when her ds1 was very little (up to 18mo) and now he won't watch it for more than 5 mins at a time - he's 3 next month. This made things very difficult, she found, when ds2 came along and she needed a bit of time to deal with him.

Have you voted? It says 70% voted 'no' to banning tv.

I like his book
it made a lot of sense to me

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It does sound extreme if you're used to occupying them with T.V. and it is much harder if there are older children in the house BUT
if you can do it, do it, because you end up with children who are really good at occupying themselves rather than needing to be entertained.

Well it would be a bloke saying this wouldn't it

I find it hard to get things done too

But nothing wrong with a child being bored for the odd half an hour, valuable life skill IMO

franny i'm impressed that you don't have a tv
we didn't have on as children and i am now a voracious reader as a result
i would love to ditch ours, but DH couldn't cope so we compromise at present by having TV in room that we tend to use in the evening so by keeping daytime tv to a minimum.
i find it saps away your brains, but is useful at times.
good on you

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Well we didn't have one for years but then got one so dp could play Dreamcast games. We hardly ever watched tv on it, occasionally a video (I do like watching films sometimes). It took more of a struggle to give it up this time, as dp wanted it to stay for his games console, but now he has a DS Lite we just ditched it.

I think the internet can be just as brainless, unhealthy and addictive so am not totally smug

Yes Pruni I just grit my teeth

or sometimes shout