No way! Never. I believe kids should watch age appropriate - no violence etc. There are soooo many awesome kids shows now, why show them anything else?? They have the rest of their lives to see them...
Toddlers and preschooler in the US watch an average of 32 hours of TV per week. In the UK it's 31 hours. How sad is that. That's a 'full time' job of their young minds passively watching, bypassing their wonderful imagination and curiosity!
We take a different approach - we watch zero TV in our house! None, zilch, nada. Just not in our habits, no time for it, etc. So our kids watch none either. We play the occasional video game when they're in bed. No judgement from me, each to their own but I just find it a waste of time, it breeds laziness and I think screen time is bad for kids, period.
https://www.ahaparenting.com/ages-stages/toddlers/toddler-preschooler-tv-computer
My son is sensitive and anxious, heck he cried while watching cars at 4 and I had to stop it
he likes scary books though, because he can peek in them slooowly *chuckles*
I think the commonsense media list is just fine! Narnia would still be far too scary for him. I think kids get desensitized by being around loud TVs all the time, often with no one watching...
My kids get the occasional 15 minute episode of 'guess how much I love you' and 'Stella and sam' on youtube but that's it. A big treat is playing on the tablet during a long carride - puzzles and worldbuilding (machinarium, marble mazes, terraria etc) hey still know and love all the classics, spiderman, dinosaurs etc from books and games. And going to grandma is a big treat to them because she has cable and treehouse and they get to watch
