If you let your under 1 have screen time, do you now regret it?

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Screen time such as miss rachel, nursery rhyme videos, dancing fruits etc.

Under 1?! I really don’t think there are many under 1 year olds watching screens. I hope not anyway.

Never let my kids have screen time under age 18 months. They don't need it.

Under 1! Hate seeing babies in pushchairs glued to a screen

I don’t think under-1s are really that interested in TV are they? Mine never were except that dancing fruit thing on YouTube we used for emergencies in doctor’s surgery or something! Otherwise they just ignored the TV if it was on (I would have my stuff on during the day sometimes!).

My son sometimes watched In the Night Garden from the playpen while I was making dinner... don't regret it at all, no harm done at all.

No tablet though, not until he was about 3 and we needed a way to keep him still for medication.

I used to let mine watch the odd dancing fruit video so I could have a shower. No regrets or guilt. It’s apples and oranges doing a jig, not crack cocaine

Little baby bum was the only way she would eat. Saved me. Very glad I did. All kids are different.

Do you have more than one child? It’s easier to be screen free if you don’t have an older child who will be watching them.

I would never put TV on specifically for an under 1 unless it’s a long haul flight and you’re struggling to keep them contained and happy. I suppose my youngest was exposed to whatever the eldest was watching, and he seems perfectly fine, but I don’t know that he was particularly interested in it until he was closer to 18 months.

Not at all

There's really no good reason to put your baby in front of a screen.

I was reading a book with my grandson (3) and there was a bit about a logging truck. My DGS is obsessed with trucks, and he wanted to know what it was like, so I found a You tube clip of a N American logging truck (they’re huge). The clip was about 30 seconds, but his little brother, aged about 11 months, was mesmerised! I was really surprised (clip was dull as, but DGS was equally entranced.) it did make me think, though, that it’s as well to be v careful with screen time. Fortunately, my DD their mother is v strict about it.

No I don’t regret it.

i watched loads of shite while feeding n the middle of the night and have never seen any evidence they even looked at the screen much less took in what was going on.

Why would a 1 year old need screen time. Use books instead.

Same. Screen time is limited now at 4+ and has been for years. no tablet other than for travel days (planes not cars). Tv for an hour a day if that some days.

To me its better to use it a tiny amount to survive the early days and then continie to restrict. Rather than be no screens until 18 months. Then dump them in front of a tablet 8 hours a day from then on.

DD is a well rounded, engaged and intelligent child. She loves screen time but she also loves a good chat and play. She's genuinely a pleasure to be around (90 percent of the time at least!). Dancing fruit for 20 minutes every few days did no harm.

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Absolutely 😁

We did black white and red dancing shapes from her being little. She was a very unsettled baby and sometimes this gave me back my arms long enough to drink a hot cup of tea or make a sandwich.

She had one day with some Sarah and duck at 11 months. I was in hospital and she couldn't go to nursery for the day as she'd just started on medication and my partner had a little bit of work to do whilst at home with her.

We aimed for no screen time but weren't evangelical about it.
She's nearly 5 now and doesn't watch much TV and when she does its rarely cartoons she prefers shows with people in

Yeah mine had screen time. Not enormous amounts of it, and frequently just on in the background. Stuff like Puffin Rock, Baby Club, or sitting with me before bed listening to the sounds of In The Night Garden whilst they had milk.

They’re 7 now and currently sitting on their bed reading a bedtime story to their soft toys. They’re great at imaginative play, love reading, and have a range of extra-curricular activities they like to take part in. They love scooters, climbing trees, and Minecraft.

I don’t regret it as part of a whole, balanced life.

I don’t regret it at all. I just made sure he was watching good quality TV, didn’t watch hours a day and he only ever watched on a TV at home, never on a tablet. He was a very unsettled baby, and it saved my sanity. It’s had no impact on his communication skills or attention span, he was an early and very good talker. He’s 3.5 now and fantastic at imaginative play, and stories he’s seen on TV are just one of the many things he draws on in his roleplay.

thanks guys! DH works away for weeks at a time and I have no family around so a few times a week when Ds won’t settle or go down for a nap I put nursery rhymes or dancing fruits on for 10 mins just so I can wash bottles or have a shower. I was just wondering if for instance 30 mins a week of dancing fruits will have any terrible impact on the future..he is totally mesmerised and sits quietly watching so I can get a few necessities done. He has plenty of play time, reading books to him, baby groups too:)

Not under 1, no. But 1-2 we'd sometimes put In the Night Garden on before bed.

Not at all. It's not like it was the only thing she done in her baby life. We used to have Baby TV and her birthday cake on her 1st birthday cake was Tricky Tracks from it. She didn't have other TV apart from it - I liked it as it was quite slow instead of a million miles a minute like a lot of cartoons. She watched it throughout her toddler years as well.

Anyway things like Tricky Tracks and Charlie and the Numbers had wee songs that went along with them and she loved them, and maybe it's a bit wishful thinking but I always think that's where her love of numbers started. She's just about to turn 10 and loves maths. There was a LOT of counting on Baby TV.

Same here. My son then progressed to alpha blocks and basic maths apps on the iPad from age 18 months ish. He is now 14 and getting A*s in everything at school. He’s a polite young man, plays two instruments and excels at sports.

IMO it’s all about balance with other activities and making sure as they get older they are not watching stuff they shouldn’t be.

So no, no regrets here.

Putting ITNG on for a few minutes means that I can do things like get washed, wash up, hang out washing, make a start on dinner etc! Don’t regret it at all!

Those of you saying no screen time for under 1s, what did you do if you had older children? I wasn’t going to tell my 4 year old he wasn’t allowed to watch any Thomas in case his younger sibling happened to see it.