TV, Movies, & Video Games

I let my lo watch tv. Do I feel guilty? Yes. Mom guilt is real. Is my child quiet and car trips now, which she hates? Yes! No near wrecks for me! Am I able to cook dinner and clean? Yes! But do I still interact with my child, hold her, respond to her needs, play with her? Also yes. Everything in moderation!

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I second what Lulu said. Especially if it avoids car accidents! 😆 . I let my kid watch Finding Dory while I take a shower and get dressed for the day. While I cook dinner he watches Super Simple Songs on YouTube (baby shark!!!) and he dances and sings to it. The only reason you should feel guilty is if you don’t spend actual time cuddling, teaching, talking and playing with your little one. Use... More

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Kidz bop

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My kiddos used to watch Ni hao Kai lan and she is adorableeee

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Thank you all! If there’s any others, please share. I should mention this is for my 5yr old. Thx!

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American Pediatric Association recommends no screen time for children under 2. We read books and listen to music or play

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I have little baby bum or some kind of educational cartoon or something on almost all day. She just runs around and plays going back and forth from her room to the living room or following me around. She very rarely sits and watches (unless it’s Moana) it’s really just there for background noise.

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Around 10-15 minutes per day. We watch a nature documentary while cuddling before naptime 😀 only way she'll stay still.

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Honestly I don’t think shrek is really all that appropriate for children. It has a ton of suggestive stuff in it. Yes , it’s made so that the kids don’t understand the jokes but the parents do to entertain everyone. But just because someone makes a “kids” movie doesn’t make it an appropriate kids movie. Now will It ruin your kid and mare him/her for life no. That being said, when it comes to me... More

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My son watches this movie all the time. It’s one of his favorites. But I honestly do fast forward the beginning after the intro song past the part where he yells at the villagers and donkey. Just so he doesn’t have to listen to that just yet.

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Curious George Boo Fest is our favorite. My son is very imaginative and will tell us if something is too scary, the above ET and Casper, he would be very anxious with.

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Room on the broom is a great movie for kids!

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I show my daughter the less creepy ones cause some get really weird. I monitor everything she looks at and we watch together. It helps she knows all her colors for sure

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BlueworldTV and Brave Wilderness are channels about animals that are not MADE for kids but my 4yo loves them

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Science with Sophie is a good channel

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Try playing fun kid music and having them watch you eat and copy you?

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Maybe have them “help” with dinner. Set the cups or utensils out.

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Llama Llama, Earth to Luna, and maybe Justin Time Go. All on Netflix. Sesame Street is always a great choice and there are a whole bunch of seasons on iTunes. I have no idea why there isn’t a Sesame Street app that has the whole collection. That needs to be a thing.

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Peg and Cat is great!! It’s also on PBS (or Amazon Prime) and about a girl and her cat who problem solve. My 3.5 yo loves it even though some of the math concepts are for older children.

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Do you do yoga regularly before your pregnancy? I watched Ali Kamenova Interval Yoga when I was pregnant. I had been doing yoga for almost 5 years. But I stopped after my LO was born. I just couldn’t find sometime for it. ;(

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https://www.merakilane.com/10-at-home-prenatal-yoga-workouts/ here’s the ones I did! They’re all free

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Noisy toys help. There are toys that your little one can interact with. Talking toys and/or baby music instruments.

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I don’t know if I agree with “babies aren’t capable of learning from tv” because my son is only 9 months old and mimicks the hand motions they do in the videos when nursery songs play on tv..... it’s how he learned to clap his hands from “if you’re happy and you know it clap your Hands”. My best friends 2 year old learned sign language from a show. (Real full on sign language). I’m not disagr... More

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My little is into machinery, so we watch a series called Mighty Machines by Canadian Public Broadcasting. 3 seasons, available from several channels on YouTube. We've been watching since little was 8m and I'm still learning things, and my now 2yr knows more about tow trucks than I do. Lol.

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Little baby bum JUNIORs

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Yes 3 is good.

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My son was just before his 4th. For the New incredibles movie and he is a big superhero fan. He did great

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My daughter was doing the same thing. But when she did it to my husband he did it right back to her and on and on. She didn’t like it and stopped doing it. I didn’t think that was going to work he does that to my 11 year old and it works on her too.

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I cracked up when I saw this. My 3 year old does the same thing - every time she’s upset it’s “grrrrrrrrr” - hoping she grows out of it soon, but at the same time I have to laugh every time she does it.

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YouTube kids!

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Nick Jr

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I’m not going to weigh in on the technology at a certain age but I will with comparing the devices. When my son was younger I bought the amazon fire and he was somewhat interested in it.. but still was more interested in my iPhone. He then got the leap pad for a birthday present.. played that for a while. When he was 3 he got an iPad when we switched cell phone providers and has internet throug... More

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Thank you everyone for your opinions they are greatly appreciated and I'm taking your responses into consideration. I will hold off on the tablet and screen time is already limited. As KammyV had done I'm currently interacting with my daughter and monitoring what the show talks about. I will be finding a way to soothe the car ride as of right now we sing the ABCs!

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