Re: Television for Children

Beliavsky wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:21 pm, FinnFactory <JamesWalterF...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

I'd like to be able to program a TV to shut off automatically after
it's been on for two hours (say) in the last 24 hours. Or to work only
for scheduled hours during the day, say 3-5pm. To use the TV at other
times, the user would need to know the password that "unlocks" the TV.
Just a locking feature alone (similar to what one can do with
computers) would be useful. I wonder if such televisions exist.

We have digital video, and we record all my son's programmes and he watches them on video. This way, he watches only specific things that my husband (the main childcarer) feels are good quality programmes, which is an approach I much prefer to that of only watching X hours of TV regardless of how good or bad the quality is. Also, we can fast-forward through what he calls the "omershal breaks". I guess this approach won't work forever (he's now 3) but it works well currently.


All the best,

Sarah
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