From the USA Weekend thing in our Sunday paper:
According to researchers at UW, 40% of three-month-old babies are regular TV watchers...and 90% of two-year-olds are!!
Our kids will just never fit in with their peers. They'll be years and years behind when it comes to pop culture.
Thank goodness!
Poor things almost NEVER see TV. They might average an hour of any screen time per month. Maybe. More like an hour per two months. And more often than not, that's an episode of Little Bear on DVD.
Of course, since we only get fuzzy broadcast TV, it's not hard to not watch the tube in our house :)
3 comments:
3 mos old?? How would one do that, strap them into the car seat set in front of the television???!
I confess when the weather is like what it's been for the past 4 months, we watch DVDs together quite a bit. We don't even follow the audience ratings. G watches grownup movies with us as long as we are okay with the general message. Are we bad bad? M crawls about in the Bermuda triangle of couch-armchair-television; she tries to bat at the swatches of colors on the screen and she chews on the remote, but watch? It baffles me how anyone would *make* an infant watch TV?
I have heard of this. I even saw some 'recommended' dvds for infants 0-6mos at the local video giant.
We haven't had anything but three channels and a weak antennae for a long time now. A woman from DirectTV called me recently. When I told her we didn't want tv service, and wouldn't in the future, she got angry! She yelled at me and told me I was putting my family in danger by not having a tv! "What if there is a storm coming??". I think if a major tornado is coming our way, we'll have other ways to figure that out.
Eli hates tv! I am such a proud mama. :)
I'm with you. I got tired of the TV, and my kids were only watching Barney on DVDs. When we moved to this apartment, our TV got put away. We don't even have a place for it to be watched. We do plan to bring it out once a week or so for a family movie night, but that is it! I'm thrilled!!!!
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