Re: T.v for babies.
- From: dragonlady <mehouck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:13:27 GMT
In article <1133655523.362227.264460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"MsLiz" <judgedl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> enigma wrote:
> > "MsLiz" <judgedl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> > news:1133618810.002438.313140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >
> > >
> > > newmama wrote:
> > >> Can anyone tell me if it is harmful for babies to watch
> > >> tv alot? My baby is 9.5 mo old and he watches teletubbies
> > >> alot. he doesnt acually sit there and stre at the tv, but
> > >> i put it on in his bedroom and he just crawls around
> > >> and climbs and plays while its on. is this a bad thing to
> > >> do? i play with him and spend time with him alot, i read
> > >> to him alot and sing to him.
> > >>
> > >> Chelsy
> > >
> > > I don't agree with babies/children/toddlers/tweens/teens
> > > having a tv in their room. I think it sets up bad habits.
> > > Two of my neighbors, whose kids have been in daycare as
> > > infants and leave very early in the am with their parents
> > > (and commute to a large city), have DVD players in the car
> > > so that their kids are entertained for the commute.
> >
> > that's two *entirely* different things.
> > i don't like tv. i grew up with a tv in a time when there
> > weren't tvs in every home, nevermind every room. my parents
> > were judicious about which programs they chose to watch & i
> > think i became somewhat discriminating because of that.
> > tv was NEVER allowed on during meals either.
> >
> > Boo watches some tv. he also has some DVDs & a DVD player
> > which is portable and used in the car when we travel to
> > relatives (7 hours on a good day). i think there's a limit of
> > how much self-amusement a toddler can come up with strapped in
> > a car seat. Boo watches the DVDs less now that he's 5, but the
> > trips were pure hell until we got the DVD player when he was
> > 2.5.
> >
> > > Personally, I think it's important that children learn to
> > > rely on their own resources rather than on movies, tv, etc.
> >
> > what resources are available to a toddler tied down in the
> > back seat?
>
> Well, given that I raised two kids without a dvd player and both did
> fine in the car, I guess it's safe to say that music, talking to them,
> books, stuffed animals, etc. were always available to them. I kept a
> basket of car stuff and when we they were really little, I'd have it in
> my reach. I always brought healthy (not messy) snacks and water in the
> car if they got thirsty or hungry. The same for when we went out to
> eat...I always brought stuff for them to do; usually a book or crayons
> or somthing. As they got older, it would be in their reach. Age
> appropriate things to do changed as they got older. Maybe it's because
> they were both "only" children (17 years apart), they learned to rely
> on themselves more than either another person or another "thing".
>
> Come on, we didn't have dvd players for years and kids did just fine in
> the car. Simply talking about the trains going by, asking them to find
> a yellow car or a bus...those are resources that are readily available
> and don't cost a penny. I have driven my daughter countless times to
> my sister's house (a 5 hour drive) from age 2 months up to this age and
> she has always done fine without watching a movie.
Let's get this straight: you had one child at a time each of whom was
apparently fairly easy to entertain in the car, you think of 5 hours as
a long drive -- and you want to criticize those who use them to help out
on long drives?
Yes, I got by without them, too -- just as my parents survived child
rearing without car seats, and THIER parents without TV sets, and . . . .
The fact is, if portable DVD players had been available, there are
things we might have done that we did NOT do, because my kids were
pretty miserable in the car, no matter what we did in the way of
entertaining them. And we did quite a lot.
Yes, I think the one-on-one time in the car can be important, and I
certainly wouldn't have used a DVD in the car for daily trips -- but for
long drives, if I'd been able to pop in a 2 hour video to give them a
break from their misery. And we'd have probably taken more weekend
trips with the kids.
And if I had a daily long commute with a child, I might have considered
using it for that, too.
>
> My personal feeling is that it takes away from the one on one time that
> we have, it takes away from the journey part and only focuses on the
> destination and it also ups the ante for how children expect to be
> intertained when traveling. Kind of like...what if you forget to bring
> a dvd? Will the kid have a fit? It's one thing when they're older and
> have not getten used to the "luxury" of watching an occassional dvd in
> the car. It's another when kids grow up with it and expect it.
So you shouldn't us it because of the possibility of it creating
problems down the road? I'm not in the habit of borrowing problems from
the future.
> I think with a 9 month old, it conditions them to need the tv to fall
> asleep. One of my greatest pleasures in life was having my babies fall
> asleep in my arms, rocking in a chair or while reading them books.
And you did that in spite of the fact that it might make them have a fit
if you couldn't be there at bed time, or created problems for them
learning to fall asleep on their own.
No, I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't have -- I happened to love
having my kids sleep in my arms, too.
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care
.
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