4 month old who loves 'Little Baby Bum' nursery rhymes on the tele

[Lloydy88]

Hi all,
I hear a lot about how until children are 2 they shouldn't watch Tele etc (don't know how people do this as the tele is on in this house most of the day) - but my 4 month old absolutely loves the nursery rhymes on the little baby bum YouTube clip which I put up on the tele.
I interact loads with him all day too and usually put it on when he's fed up of interacting and fed up of his bouncer and mat etc. Does anyone else do this? It helps me get some things done. I don't want to stunt his speech or anything.
Let me know What you do!
Many thanks.

Oh god we couldn't do with out a bit of TV in this house. My dd is 6 months and sometimes we need 10 minutes of peace to eat or get something done so we just stick her in front of something and she'll happily sit.
It's not all the time and she has plenty of toys/reading time. It won't do them any harm!

My eldest ds learnt the alphabet from watching little baby bum videos .

Unless he's watching excessive amounts I wouldn't worry about it. I used to sing the songs from the videos to/with ds which, if anything, probably helped his speech.

I'm not a fan of TV for little ones so DD (15/16 months) doesn't watch, but it's a pretty even split among our friends and if it gives you breathing space for a few minutes I don't think it's so bad. This, though: "don't know how people do this as the tele is on in this house most of the day" - well, you just don't have it on like that / just switch it on when you actually want to watch something.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all. My son has always loved little baby bum. Whenever it’s on I talk to him about what’s going on ‘oh look at the sheep eating an apple’ and interacting/playing with him at the same time. I only think it’s detrimental if they’re just left in front of screens for hours with no interaction which is clearly not what you’re doing. Don’t worry about it and if he enjoys it that’s great, it can sometimes buy you a few mins to do something essential

@Lloydy88 honestly please don't worry about it. Mine all loved telly.

I got a telling off on a previous thread for saying that I showed my newborns a video of bouncing dots to stop them crying and calm them down long enough to latch.

My 2 year old will watch cocomelon maybe once or twice a week and loses interest after about 10 minutes. DH showed him octonauts and after a while we realised dc1 had gone off to play and we were both sitting and watching it ourselves!

The television is barely on, I don't watch anything and DH watches one thing in the evenings usually.

We put it on for background noise while playing even now. My DD is 2 and DS is 5.

If I put cartoons in my DS would zombie out in front of it, but nursery rhymes like baby bum they just play with their toys and sing along

I'd never be able to eat breakfast and drink a brew before work in the morning without TV.

My 11 month old loves Hey Duggee and Noddy, and I have no problem in letting her watch it.

Little baby bum is probably on for a couple of hours a day in our house as background noise and has since DD was 5-6 months. She doesn't just sit and watch it, we sing along to the songs and do the actions and animal sounds. And she's off playing during that time but just pauses to dance to her favourite songs. I don't think it's harmed DD at all.

She's 16 months now and does the actions (or tries to) for quite a few of the songs, she makes the animal sounds along to old macdonald and says some words along with the alphabet songs. So if anything I think it's probably taught her quite a lot!

Super Simple Songs is great too :)

We're the same!! DD is 10mo almost and we have it on a. Few hours a day 😫. BUT we always have the toys out and we play at the same time. Sometimes I just need to eat/pee/. Have 5 min breathing space she's in to EVERYTHING at the mo and climbing up anything se can

Nursery rhymes are good for kids

My son (25mo) has learned loads of things from the TV - he knows signs from Mr Tumble (today he signed ‘flag’ - don’t know why as he can say the word!), all his shapes and colours, and some songs and dances. He surprises me with things he’s remembered.

All he wants to watch is videos of trucks and diggers though so I consider it an achievement when he’ll accept CBeebies tbh.

DD1 lived the big bang theory theme tune and Gilmore girls theme tune as a baby. DD2 loved hey duggee at 11 months. when she was poorly a few weeks ago little baby bum stopped the crying for a while.
As long as it's not all day, and there's more human interaction than tv, it's all ok.