Baby on Watching TV

Hi Ip! I'm not a parent yet, but I have friends with kids. They allow their babies to watch TV and I don't see them being bothered. But you are right, perhaps they should. If it were me, I would filter what my child watches. I'd probably feed her with educational, fun videos instead.

While my kids were very young I did and they too enjoyed Sesame Street. They loved the songs and funny characters. As they got older then I began to restrict the TV as I was a single parent and worked a lot therefore, I took them out a lot so that they did not cling on to TV. I paid for Catholic school Education so TV in my home was not allowed Monday through Thursdays as the homework, dinner and some time together was quite important to me. You will be fine as you will know what to restrict as she gets older and just be sure to be consistent. Good luck and many blessings to your 7 month year old, what a great age.

We live in an apartment so we don't have a lot of space - one of the things we got rid of was our tv. (The TV had been in the room that became the baby's room).

My daughter is now 4 but when she was a baby, I was putting her in her rocker at 3 months old to watch Raggs which is an Australian kids show...she loved it as they characters are brightly colored...this gave me 30 mins free to do house work as she never slept during the day.

When my daughters are still a baby, I always bought educational DVDs instead of letting them watch the television programs. They love Barney because of the music it shares and of course Dora and Pooh. It was a great way to keep them still and silent because you could load 3-5 cds at a time and they kept on running until they feel sleepy.

Hi JP, I don’t see anything wrong with letting a baby watch TV. If you are watching TV, then what is wrong with your baby watching TV? My daughter loved watching commercials too. I don’t think babies should be watching stuff with foul language in it or suggestive stuff… granted they may not know what the words are or what the gist of the TV show is all about, but you might be surprised when you baby starts to speak and starts saying cuss words. Then you have to take time to explain that they can’t say those words because they aren’t nice… or that they are adult words and little girls and boys don’t say those words… Have a great day!

I would suggest that you get some classical or light classical music CD and play them for your child. There are many people who feel that listening to classical music helps develop the child's brain. http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/building_babys_brain.htm Music also has a calming effect on the child.

Mi kids are all one and older now and when they were old enough to sit up i would turn to daytime television and allow them to watch maybe a few shows while i cleaned or cooked or something of that nature. My baby is now 22 months old so she now enjoys watching nickjr/noggin. Her favorite shows are blues clues and yo gabba gabba.

My kiddos were allowed to watch television from the time that they were able to focus on what was on the screen. Both of them sat with me and watched things as I was watching them and I also did a lot of educational programs. Now my children are eight and four years old and they are both advanced for their ages. I think that the fact that they've watched educational television has really enriched their lives.

Hi ip! I have a 3-month old baby and every once in a while I let her watch TV shows in my computer (we have no TV). I had to make sure that it's appropriate for children and babies though. This is quite important because what they see greatly influences them. Babies can be very observant so it's important that what they watch are ones that are appropriate for their age. I also let her watch some of the videos that we record of her. Like videos of her laughing and making conversations. She likes it very much coz she laughs when she hears our voices in the video :)

We can let the baby watch cartoons while we leave them in their crib, to do something. But it doesn't necessarily mean leaving him alone for a long time. You have to watch them from where you are doing your chore.

Well if you ask me then i would suggest that you only make your baby watch gentle videos. Like with a soothing theme, something that talks about fragrance.. I can also suggest watching fashion vids and Oh i almost forgot, Baby stuffs.. something that tlaks and deals with babies..