We don't turn it on in the evening before her bedtime anymore (7pm). I can't help but watch football on Sunday's, though! We just try to distract her or keep her facing away from the TV. It is so hard though because she LOVES the moving pictures. Haha.
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I don't really turn it on unless she's asleep or even when she's nursing and I may have missed Teen Mom 2 the night before. We definitely keep football on all day Saturday and Sunday though. She loves watching it but if it interferes with her schedule, I take her out of the room.
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Brennan is obsessed with TV, so I try not to turn it on when he's in the room. Luckily, during the week he is in daycare and there are no TVs so I don't feel awful if he watches a little football with mommy and daddy on the weekend.
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My policy used to be no tv when she's up, but then she pushed her bedtime back to 9, some nights, and that leaves me with no down time after she goes to bed. So now only after 7, or if I'm sick or something. I'm not perfect about it, some difficult mornings I'll on sesame street. But I for sure do not leave it on all day.
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I've wondered about what we will do when we have a LO. I'm sure there will be some football and some golf on on the weekends, but if that equals bonding time with dad, so be it. Other than that I think I will avoid it, but I'm not there yet so can't say for sure.
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We usually have the TV off when the kids are up but only because they keep us so busy and preoccupied with all the running around and chaos.
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This is something I've been meaning to get better at. I have the TV on half the time when LO is awake =( Sometimes I just have it on for the comfort of background noise.
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We try to keep it off when he's around, but DH will "cheat" with sports sometimes.
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hahah you can give me bad mom award but I let DS watch TV! He watches Signing Time mostly but some days, if I'm really tired or not feeling well I'll turn on one of my shows and he will watch intermittently.
The weekends he doesn't ever watch TV though because we always spend more time together as a family, or we're out doing things.
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I don't have a LO yet, but I wonder about this too! We ALWAYS have the tv on if we are home. Always.
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@Mrs. Pen: i'm there with ya! we have the tv on. mostly for background noise. we'll put on some cartoons for him. but he is usually playing with his toys instead of watching.
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We always have the TV on during our dinner and after. LO is usually partly awake for part of that time; and since she is obsessed with trying to watch TV I'm sure she sometimes watches it. She cranes her little neck around to see it!
Sometimes we also have the TV on before dinner; usually just as background noise or for the news.
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I'll have the TV on in the background during the day but I'm not really focused on it that much so neither is she. We don't actively sit down and watch TV very much while she is awake. We indulge at night after she's gone to bed though.
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I'll admit that I have it on half the time w/ LO. I don't worry about it too much, honestly.
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@meredithNYC: I don't either. I had a lot of guilt about it initially but it's hard to change old habits and apart from that it's hard to find a lot of things to do with babies under a year old because activities only hold their attention for maybe 20 minutes at a time.
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@Mrs. Pen: Totally! The only thing I will say is that I can no longer have the TV on when giving her a bottle because she will turn her head away from the bottle to watch what's on screen.
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I rarely have the tv on when she's up. I will if I have a migraine and someone else is watching her and I'm laying on the couch or if its a special football game, but she refuses to watch tv so it doesn't worry me at all.
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@meredithNYC: haha same here! Whenever I nurse him I have to put everything on hold. He still pops off to look around, as if he's just "checking" to make sure he's not missing anything
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We have it on for part of the day- morning and evening news and a few shows here and there, and sports. He really only watches a half hour at breakfast so I can get ready (Little Einsteins or Sesame Street) and that's about it.
It is too bad about the hockey strike this year, that was one thing that had his attention during the Stanley Cup earlier this year.
The other half of the day I will usually run my ipod or a music app.
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I have it on often for background noise but I try and keep her distracted with other things. When home alone its hard to not have it on because then I feel weird.
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Yep in the evening we do. Sometimes she watches here and there and sometimes she ignores it. Now that she is crawling she seems to have zero interest in the tv.
I don't think it will harm her.
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We also have it on in the evenings after dinner time. I really don't care at this point. Sometimes he'll turn around to watch it but most of the time he's more interested in his toys.
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We have the T.v. on for background noise as well. Its nice to hear adult conversations while I'm cleaning or playing with LO. She doesnt pay attention to it. (shes usually getting into things shes not suppose to instead!
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never since our only tv is in our bedroom, and since that's gated off downstairs the kids never go there.
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Whenever we are home our TV is on, mostly for background noise. LO has gotten used to it so doesn't really care for it too much, he's army crawling now so he's much more interested in finding mischief to get into than staying in one spot watching TV.
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@mediagirl: we don't have the tv on when LO is awake/with us except for football games on Sunday too :). We turn her highchair away from the tv so she can't see it while she's eating (our kitchen, casual dining area and family room are all open) and we just bring her toys in the family room and let her play while the football games are on. Our pediatrician said as long as it's not dedicated screen time that it's not that bad if the tv is on in the background.
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Often...but I really should cut back. I'm use to keeping the news on while I cook dinner but the news is SO scary to a 3 year old! DS doesn't pay attention to any show that doesn't seem Disney-ish. DD has no interest in the tv.
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@Mrs. Pen: after seeing you post about baby Einstein I turned on their YouTube channel for DD while DH & I ate dinner...game changer
Sometimes I let her watch a little "live! With Kelly & Michael" while I drink my morning tea or make breakfast/get dressed but that's about it. I try and only watch it when she's sleeping but as a SAHM sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do lol
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No...the tv is on only when it is her shows or after bedtime.
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