POLL: Does LO watch TV/Shows?

[briarrose]

I don't put it on for him, but he will peek/watch what we are watching. I don't have it on most of the day, but we have it on pretty much all evening and it's hard to avoid/stop.

[daisylola11]

The tv is on in the background for the most part, he sneaks peaks every once in a while, mostly when music comes on. I try to play music when I'm busy doing things around the house and not actually wracking a show.

[gahorseygal]

I let my hubs put on stuff when he watches her and I'm not there. It keeps them both happy. I just ask that he doesn't prop her in front of the TV and ignore her. I have put it on when I want to take a shower and she's awake.

I watched Greys and now I watch Gilmore Girls and she will watch that when the theme song comes on. It's really for the music. All the kids stuff we put on is baby genius or something similar that has a ton of songs.

[sjshark]

She watches more than I would like her to, but we also don't put her in front of the tv either. It's more that we watch too much tv, giving her a lot of opportunity to take advantage of it being on.

[Courtniko]

We almost never have the TV on anymore, and when we do LO is positioned away from it. Sometimes she gets a bit of a peek and stares for a minute or two.
When DH watches her she probably sees some more.
We have never put her in front of the TV to watch something.

[annbuhdan]

At home she only watches it in passing because I try to entertain her other ways. But I know my in laws (who watch her while I'm at work) point her at their huge tv to calm her down. Not sure how I feel about that...

[mfsunshine]

We have a Roku and the free Disney Channel app has something called "big block sing song" about 50 short songs with big block faces that take up the whole screen! This has been our middle of the night go to since he was a couple weeks old. Now that he STTN I will put it on for him a couple of evenings throughout the week to start calming him down before his bath.
The only other thing he watches for any length if time is Mickey Mouse (usually clubhouse) I'll tell you Disney definitely is onto something with that mouse...must be the voice?

[professorbinns]

Up until last week he had never watched tv. We only have a tv in the basement, I don't like tv on during the day. By the time I turn it on he's already in bed. I did try and put a cartoon on the iPad last week to see what he was would do. He lasted all of 15 seconds before he was looking around for something else to do.

He loves to FaceTime right now though! His favorite part is when we are calling someone and he can just see himself... Vain little bugger

[merry]

DS glances at it once in a while... He likes football and some of DD's shows (Clifford, curious George, Thomas) but never watches for any length of time. FIL is amazed and says "omg he loves TV" and I'm like " Ya with all the colours movement and music of course he's going to look and see, he's curious". My coworker says his DD (7.5 months) loves cartoons s d they watch like 3episodes of doc, Sofia EUC in the mornings... His MIL also got his DD a iPad mini for Xmas so she can watch her shows, I wasn't even sure what to say about that.

[redhorizon343]

We want to go as long as possible without LO watching tv. I don't watch it when I'm home with her and she is awake. The only screen time she gets is FaceTime to chat with relatives.

I don't want to watch crap kids tv. Preferably ever, but I'll settle for as long as humanly possible.

[Chrisse]

She watches more than I would like, but I don't see our habits changing anytime in the foreseeable future. I don't have the energy to fight that battle.

[briarrose]

Feb 3, 2015 16:16:02 GMT -5 merry said:

DS glances at it once in a while... He likes football and some of DD's shows (Clifford, curious George, Thomas) but never watches for any length of time. FIL is amazed and says "omg he loves TV" and I'm like " Ya with all the colours movement and music of course he's going to look and see, he's curious". My coworker says his DD (7.5 months) loves cartoons s d they watch like 3episodes of doc, Sofia EUC in the mornings... His MIL also got his DD a iPad mini for Xmas so she can watch her shows, I wasn't even sure what to say about that.

The ipad would piss me off. But I am anti a lot of technology for kids. MIL uses her phone to entice her grandkids to like her/sit with her. That will not be happening in front of my hubby. My own mom was letting LO watch her play games on her kindle and I was annoyed at that too. Its one thing if I do it...

[shevacc]

We let his older sister watch a Daniel Tiger and Curious George a few times a week. He will turn his head and try to watch if he's in the room, and then turn into a ball of overstimulated misery a few minutes later. But it's hard to avoid when both kids are together. He'll inevitably be more exposed to it than DD was at a comparable age. We don't put the tv on specifically for him and will try not to until he's 2ish.

[jamjoyful]

She will peek at whatever her sister is watching in the morning. Usually she isn't interested unless it is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. We really aren't anti cartoons/screen time. We travel a lot so we used our iPad to keep DD1 busy whenever we have to drive for hours.

[mrsnorris]

With DD1 occasionally watching movies, etc, she sees the TV sometimes but isn's overly interested. She'll stare for a few minutes and then get bored. She's equally likely to stare at the screen for Pandora as anything else so I think it's color/light/sound/movement that interests her. We don't have TV but watch movies on Netflix occasionally. We pretty much avoid kiddie TV- DD1 watched VERY little of it. The one time we deliberately do screen time for LO is when we're in the car and she's completely losing her shit. Then I'll let DD1 (who sits in back with her) will show LO a dancing shape app for babies which usually puts her to sleep. I like to avoid screens for babies but I also like to avoid long stretches of hysterical crying when I can't comfort her.

[Deleted]

i'm pretty certain she watches quite a bit with my mom, who will turn on Nick Jr or Disney Jr.
It's occasionally on when she's around (hello football!) & she looks at it a lot when we have Pandora going (the CD cover is just floating around)

[laur110]

DD sometimes catches glimpses of hockey games and loves it. She turns her head like crazy to try and watch. Other than a passing glance here and there though that is all her screen time.

[vk]

DS LOVES Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, but only the beginning and end of it. That is the only thing we will actually let him watch. I think he mostly just likes the songs.

[withsilverwings]

Not shows persay but even when he was itty-bitty he's loved watching hockey & football BUT he doesn't watch the whole thing just a few minutes here and there and then a toy or the dog grabs his attention.

[tinkl0ver]

Emma seems content with baby geniuses that I found when I needed to do my nebulizer treatments while SO was at work and she was being a fussy butt. I figured TV was probably the lesser of two evils between that and letting her breathe in my medication. Other than that, she doesn't seem all that interested. She was less than thrilled about the Superbowl except when Katy Perry was on.

[redhorizon343]

Feb 3, 2015 15:30:47 GMT -5 Courtniko said:

We almost never have the TV on anymore, and when we do LO is positioned away from it. Sometimes she gets a bit of a peek and stares for a minute or two.
When DH watches her she probably sees some more.
We have never put her in front of the TV to watch something.

Positioning LO away from the TV stopped working months ago. I swear she is a contortionist. If we don't want her watching, it really has to be off because if it's on she WILL find a way to look. 

[withsilverwings]

Feb 5, 2015 10:12:54 GMT -5 redhorizon343 said:

Feb 3, 2015 15:30:47 GMT -5 Courtniko said:

We almost never have the TV on anymore, and when we do LO is positioned away from it. Sometimes she gets a bit of a peek and stares for a minute or two.
When DH watches her she probably sees some more.
We have never put her in front of the TV to watch something.

Positioning LO away from the TV stopped working months ago. I swear she is a contortionist. If we don't want her watching, it really has to be off because if it's on she WILL find a way to look. 

LOL this - if ROM wants to watch hockey he will watch - even if it means upside down, folded in two, w/e

[navyblues2114]

We don't purposely put it on for him but dd watches tv so he does get glimpses of it. I usually put him in the adjacent room so he doesn't have s view of it but sometimes I'm so worn out idgaf.

[wandsandwine]

It's almost always on as background noise in our home but LO doesn't pay much attention to it.