Just Curious About TV...

[Rachel]

No TV, at all.

[Holladee]

The kids get to watch a little bit of Barney everyday. We eat lunch at 11:15 and Barney is on at 11:30. Depending on how long lunch takes they watch 15-30 minutes of Barney and then it is nap time.

I clean up from lunch while they are watching so I don't have to use my quiet time to do it!

[countrymom]

my t.v. is on all day we don't watch it all day but its on for background noise

this is my house too, my own children could care less if its on, but the daycare kids need it on, isn't that weird.

[Sugar Magnolia]

I have DirecTV and subscribe to "Baby First TV" channel. We watch it daily at snack time (helps keep them in their seats). It is not really for babies, its all appropriate for kids 1-5. And when its on, either my husband or I "actively" participate....we stand next to it and point and say things like "what color is that?....how many apples? Let's count them." Its never on otherwise. HOWEVER we do have a DVD player for rainy day movies. And we only watch that one channel, I HATE commercials and all the other Nickelodeon crap they push over the airwaves. I also use the DirectTV music channels to play quiet music, there is no picture. But snack time only for "shows" and active participation.

[familyschoolcare]

I only take care of school agers..

We have a movie on Fridays (no homework club) and I will sometimes (depending on how many are still here) have the children put their shoes sit down and watch some TV at 5:30, I close at 6:15 (This is so I can cook dinner, if they are sitting in front of the TV I can see them from the Kit.)

[Christina72684]

That is how I want to be, I want to be so busy the kids don't even think about the tv. I usually let the children watch a half hour of tv when we start nap or quiet time. They calm down and are usually ready to roll over and go to sleep after the show.

Same here.

[AnythingsPossible]

I answered some. In the summer, it is none. Now, we generally watch Peppa Pig after lunch and before rest time. I am thinking of starting to record sesame street and breaking it up into a couple of segments throughout the day, then basing our activities off of what they have watched. Watch a little in the morning, a little after lunch and a little after nap.

[Solandia]

No TV, not at all.

IMO, background TV still counts. It is on, it is still a distraction and the kids play less intense/less creatively than without it. Again, in my experience. Which was confirmed in a study i saw recently...let me see if I can find it...

http://www.srcd.org/journals/cdev/0-0/Schmidt.pdf

The abstract: This experiment tests the hypothesis that background, adult television is a disruptive influence on very young children’s behavior. Fifty 12-, 24-, and 36-month-old played with a variety of toys for one hour. For half of the hour, a game show played in the background on a monaural TV set. During the other half-hour, the TV was off. The children looked at the TV for only a few seconds at a time and less than once per minute. Nevertheless, background TV significantly reduced toy play episode length as well as focused attention during play. Thus, background television disrupts very young children’s play behavior even when they pay little overt attention to it. These findings have implications for subsequent cognitive development.

I see no benefit what so ever. Anything the TV can 'teach', is taught better in person face-to-face.

[snbauser]

None here. There isn't even a tv in the rooms that we use for care.

[sharlan]

NONE. I do not even own a TV. My kids get absolutely no TV time what so ever.

How lucky. My dh would die if his tv did.

[Blackcat31]

How lucky. My dh would die if his tv did.

Oh, don't misunderstand me.....we have 5 TV's at home. I just do not own one for my daycare house.

I truly believe that there is no such thing as "educational", "good" , "age appropriate" or "acceptable programming" for children under age 5. But that is MY personal opinion and what others choose to do or not do in their child care programs is up to them. I judge no one.

Funny thing is though, I do have a video suveillance system at the daycare house for security and safety reasons and when the monitor is on....my dck's will stand and watch the monitor. It is a fixed image of our outdoor play space. Unless a bird or small animal enters the space, there is no movement. Wonder what it is that makes them stand and "watch".... :confused:::

[sahm2three]

We watch a video pretty much every morning during the babies nap time. It is either a movie or an educational show. We are watching baby sign language about 3 days a week, and then the other two days we watch a fun movie. That is the only time we watch tv. Other than that we have music on all day.

[blessedmess8]

I think TV has NO value to children - especially the wee ones. That said, we watch every day! :-/ I used to NEVER turn it on. Now, I have it on educational programming (which I feel is a lesser evil) first thing in the am. I have kids who it helps them come in and transition to daycare from home and their parents actually appreciate that. Also, first thing in the am I am busy getting my own kids and husband off to school/work and it helps occupy the kids. So... While I am not a fan, I am guilty of using it as a tool to pacify and occupy every single am!

[Zoe]

We have the TV on for about 20 minutes every day while I'm making lunch. My son also has a tv in his room so he can watch a video during quiet time. It's usually tv shows on Netflix, such as Dora, Yo Gabba Gabba, Barney, and depending on the age of the group that day Phinneas and Ferb. I don't have a problem with it at all because it keeps them all in one space and occupied when I need them to be.

[Christian Mother]

The tv is on some of the day. I'd say half bc no one here really watches it. My kids are all really young so it hasn't posed a problem as of yet. It is on the Disney channel or nick. Sometimes I have it on channel 8 which is sesame street. But if anything my kids are singer dancers. They love to listen to music all day and dance. They don't notice the tv on at all. Although one parent would like her son to be able to watch the pirate show on disney at 8:30am. So sometimes I put that on and if he watches it great if not no biggie as we are always really busy. For my oldest children it's starting to become a problem so I turn it off just before nap time is over bc that is about the time my oldest gets home from school and I don't want distractions for him so he does his home work with out problems.