This is a very controversial topic. It's at the back of my head when I was expecting April, that there is research result about no TV until age 2, but it never really ring a bell until I learnt from other Mommies recently. We got DVD gifts from friends and families. It was around 6 months old, if my memory serves me well, that I attempted using DVD to gain myself sometime to feed myself (since once I didn't aware I missed lunch while taking care of April and I had a terrible diahrrea and vomit at night) or to cook/do housework/actual work. April will space out with Baby Einstein, it's safe to be in the kitchen while she's in the living room zooming out. It was especially helpful when I was doing the crazy schedule with Will, saved me on some conference calls. Now that I think about it, it may contribute to why April doesn't like to talk and she started talking late. Then again, another part of me is arguing, since her personality is like Daddy, would it really help that much if we completely excluded TV? Maybe marginal, it's hard to measure. Even I ain't a chatty person. Also with such a big time couch potato in the household, it's not that easy to completely exclude TV, though April ignore actual TV most of the time, she will look away and play with her toys. Probably she can't make any sense out of it. Slowly, since DVDs seems to help our schedule (excuses, excuses) we started buying more DVDs, secretly hoping it might help in someway. To adults like us, it "seems" like some of them are tailored nicely for babies. Now that April is way past age 2. Looking back, there is something I noticed. There were a few instances that April reminds us she saw certain toys or objects from Baby Einstein. When I bought a set of Baby Einstein flash card later on, she also mentioned she saw it before. And when I played my old piano pieces, "The Beautiful Blue Danube", she described to me where she had heard it from, with what toys she saw it with. I wondered, if DVDs delay a kid's speech ability, did anyone do a research on visual impression? Also we got a DVD from our friend Song and Ted, who brought Wiggles to April and to us, we as parents have never heard of Wiggles before. It's probably when April is 1ish, I can't remember the exact timing. After repeatively playing the DVD numerous times, April could pretty much sing/dance along with the video. I will throw a few clips here, though don't get me wrong. I am planning to exclude as much TV as possible with my #2, and I will report back how I do it. For now, I am still not 100% confident that I can follow it through myself :P
Now that she's 3, we've shown her a few Miyazaki's movies, her favorites is Kiki Delivery and Totoro and she also watched Cinderella from school. She could pretty much describe to us how the story goes and if anything in particular made stronger impression on her.
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Kyle wasn't interested in TV before age 2, if i rememberd right. however, after or around 2, he started to regonize some famous charactors, like Thomas the train, Bob the builder.. I don't agree to exclude TV 100%, because that's impossible! and like you said, sometimes we need to buy us some time to eat a quick lunch or do house work. then TV is my cheap babysitter.... not the best but handy. I think as long as the child is not watching it more than 1 hr a day, everyday. I dont' see the big damage. at least when i was little, i know i watched more TV than kyle....
now the problem we have is not how much he watched, is what he watched. his dad likes to watch "Heros","Lost", that type of program. and KYle saw some of it (it's impossible to block him from seeing it at all), now he wants to watch those programs! so I told rex unless KYLE is not home, he will just have to watch the online one after we go to sleep.
I love how she asked you to adjust her fingers! That's so cute.
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