How Long Do You Allow Your Children To Watch TV ?

My 15 month old daughter does not really watch much at all. She is usually running around the room playing with the television in the background. My 8 year old gets about 1-2 hours of television a night. Some nights he chooses the computer or his play station 2 instead of the television.

they only watch it an hour or so a day especially now that the weather is getting nicer outside, i kick them outside or get them to read a book. (fortunately the both like to read!) i dont watch much tv because i read alot and only really like a couple of shows that are on tv...

I have these tickets, like you get when there is a raffle or something..I have red and blue. The red is for 30 minutes and the blue is for an hour..My 5 y/o automatically gets a red ticket every morning. Then if he does something nice that I catch him at, I give him a red or blue, (depending on how good the deed was), and he uses those for not only watching TV, but playing videos games and computer time..It has worked really well..He isn't on all the time and if he wants to watch a long movie, like for example, a Disney movie, then he makes sure he is well behaved in order to get that blue ticket..(btw, the blue ticket is for an hour on video/computer time, when it comes to movies which can be up to 2 hours long, I will take just one blue ticket, because a blue ticket stands for movies where as the red one will be for a half hour show)

Now that the weather is getting nicer, my three year old watches about a half hour to an hour of TV a day. Maybe one show in the morning and then one again at night. Over the winter it was a little different. Especially when we were battling the colds flus that we were all passing around the house.