Those who dont let you lo see/watch the tv...

[whit.]

you're right. The problem with my child is that she does not get enough programming. She does not see enough junk food or barbie doll advertisements. she does not fixate her eyes for at least an hour a day (minimum) at a bright screen while her mouth hangs open and drool drips down her chin. She does not watch teletubbies or cheebies and therefore i am keeping her in a bubble. I am not allowing her to be her own individual person. Learning from nature and books is boring. I must go out immediately and buy her a television. It is the only way she can be saved....................

Me seeing something on tv doesn't make me want to go buy it. Have you seen infomercials? I've not once wanted to go buy something on there. Nor do I think seeing junk food is going to go make me want to buy it. We are understanding where you are coming from, but you're not understanding us.

Maybe if you watched tv then you would realize this. Just because you see something doesn't mean you want it.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

you're right. The problem with my child is that she does not get enough programming. She does not see enough junk food or barbie doll advertisements. she does not fixate her eyes for at least an hour a day (minimum) at a bright screen while her mouth hangs open and drool drips down her chin. She does not watch teletubbies or cheebies and therefore i am keeping her in a bubble. I am not allowing her to be her own individual person. Learning from nature and books is boring. I must go out immediately and buy her a television. It is the only way she can be saved....................

That is so offensive I can't even believe you've posted it.

My child watches TV, I rarely put kids programs on but the tele is generally on just for background noise.

Coralie rarely pays any attention to it, unless a song she likes comes on (I have music tv on) and then she dances I have never seen her staring at a bright screen with her mouth hung open with drool coming down her chin.

Having an opinion is fine, making random insults is not. Do not force your narrow minded opinions on people & poke fun at people who ignore them

Couldnt agree more!
MommaCat.. please get a grip.. you're coming across as slightly obsessed with this issue now

 

[Louppey]

Whit you raise a good point. MommaCat doesn't own a TV so doesn't know. She just reads these articles & this has made her believe TV = The Devil

Atleast we watch the TV & make up our own minds!

Perhaps you shouldn't judge something you haven't experienced MommaCat.

 

[lisaf]

to be fair, I believe she said she's tried watching it before.

Though I do have to agree that being unfamiliar with it would make it seem scarier...
The first film of a train coming towards the camera terrified the audience that they were going to be run over

 

[Louppey]

When I first watched something in 3D I nearly crapped myself lmao!

Tbh I have sky+ so I fast forward the ads anyway so I wouldn't have noticed the "subliminal messages"

 

[fedupwaiting]

ooooh just caught up with this thread. yeeeesh!!!

my baby watches telly, i have nothing really to add to the debate.

I would like to confess however that my baby fell asleep the other day at the start of a waybuloo and I watched the whole thing without her

I just really had to find out why the caterpillar was sad

Spoiler

turns out he was lonely

 

[whit.]

I'm just curious as well, with these subliminal messages. What 3 year old is going to know that the dust made the word "sex" in the lion king? (which I find to be quite sketchy anyway.)

 

[MommaCat]

obviously one doesnt just come to these conclusions randomly. i have owned a television. i grew up watching barnie, power rangers, nickelodeon, disney, mtv(as a teen), showtime, hbo and the like. You are making assumptions by telling me that i have never experienced it.

But i am letting you all know that you are all right! You have completely convinced me that everything i have presented is pure rubbish and that television is excellent for the young developing mind. I no longer believe television shuts down activity in the neo cortex and midbrain based on the mounting evidence you have all provided. I am going out now to my nearest shopping mall to purchase one. i refuse to keep my child in a bubble anymore (as a previous poster accused me of doing)

and i will stop using the internet now too , where i can search for information on my own rather than being spoonfed it by the same 5 corporations that own all major media outlets<-fact.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

ooooh just caught up with this thread. yeeeesh!!!

my baby watches telly, i have nothing really to add to the debate.

I would like to confess however that my baby fell asleep the other day at the start of a waybuloo and I watched the whole thing without her

I just really had to find out why the caterpillar was sad

Spoiler

turns out he was lonely

I actually laughed out loud... very loud when I clicked your spoiler..
(now Ady is looking at me all strange... so I just said "the caterpillar was lonely" he has just imformed he is going to bed and I am to come up when I have matured lol! priceless! lol!

 

[lisaf]

The sarcasm is really uncalled for mommacat. I have refrained from saying many things I have felt, you might want to practice similar restraint.

I find its always the same arguement with any conspiracy theorist... that you can't trust the mainstream sources because they are all 'in on it' therefore the only data that is valid is stuff from off-beat sources which also happen to have poorly conducted studies, illogical conclusions etc.

I don't know how to argue with crazy.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

obviously one doesnt just come to these conclusions randomly. i have owned a television. i grew up watching barnie, power rangers, nickelodeon, disney, mtv(as a teen), showtime, hbo and the like. You are making assumptions by telling me that i have never experienced it.

But i am letting you all know that you are all right! You have completely convinced me that everything i have presented is pure rubbish and that television is excellent for the young developing mind. I no longer believe television shuts down activity in the neo cortex and midbrain based on the mounting evidence you have all provided. I am going out now to my nearest shopping mall to purchase one. i refuse to keep my child in a bubble anymore (as a previous poster accused me of doing)

and i will stop using the internet now too , where i can search for information on my own rather than being spoonfed it by the same 5 corporations that own all major media outlets<-fact.

Fabulous! Happy Christmas! (can we all be friends now?)

 

[whit.]

https://kidstvmovies.about.com/od/healthytvhabits/a/tvgoodforkids.htm

You can find anything on the internet that you want to.

 

[MommaCat]

did i not provide articles from cnn and huffington post? Mainstream sources indeed.

And who says i am being sarcastic? the evidence you have all provided is staggering.

 

[Louppey]

*yawn*

Whatever MommaCat. Whether or not you buy a TV is of no interest to me.

I just do not appreciate what you said about what children who watch TV must be like. It was rude & offensive.

Do whatever you like with your child - just don't try & tell us what to do with ours.

 

[fedupwaiting]

ooooh just caught up with this thread. yeeeesh!!!

my baby watches telly, i have nothing really to add to the debate.

I would like to confess however that my baby fell asleep the other day at the start of a waybuloo and I watched the whole thing without her

I just really had to find out why the caterpillar was sad

Spoiler

turns out he was lonely

I actually laughed out loud... very loud when I clicked your spoiler..
(now Ady is looking at me all strange... so I just said "the caterpillar was lonely" he has just imformed he is going to bed and I am to come up when I have matured lol! priceless! lol!

heehee!!!!
maturity is over-rated........... balllloooooooooo!!!!!!

 

[whit.]

This was literally posted by someone on my facebook 20 seconds ago.

"The Disney Store realllly makes me want a baby...then I realize, who the hell am I kidding?! I'm perfectly happy with my 4-legged kids for now."

 

[SerenityNow]

Without starting an argument just wondering what your own reasons are for this?

We don't have a television so for us it isn't really that we don't let our kids (ages 11, 7 and 5 mo.) watch TV, they just don't have the opportunity. We'll watch a movie on the laptop about once a week and we go out to the movies once a month or so, but that's about it for us.

The main reason we don't have TV is because we're cheap, we don't have good antenna reception where we live and we don't want to pay for cable. I also think that time spent watching TV is time that could be better spent doing something else. I don't buy into the idea of TV being "educational". It's sort of like touting the anti-oxidants in chocolate-- there may be some redeeming qualities but seriously, no one is getting healthier by eating chocolate.

Some of the stuff posted in this thread on the "no tv" side has been abrasive and over the top, but there really are good studies by reputable universities published in peer-reviewed journals that link watching television to delayed language development and shortened attention span. That doesn't mean that all children who watch tv will have these problems, just that there is an correlation.

https://www.aap.org/pressroom/mediaunder2.pdf

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090601182830.htm

https://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/tvapril.pdf

 

[LittleBoo]

*Ahem*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtV-V-oJAyU

FAO MommaCat. And everyone else.

 

[whit.]

 

[nosocks]

Mommacat...
Really- do you need to be so rude and sarcastic? Do you teach your children to do that also when someone disagrees with them?
You are really aggressive in how you talk 'love'.... It doesn't make any of us actually want to read your continual thread of research.
Did YOU actually read my post that included the research I found? Doubt it because you're only interested in your side of things... Not a balanced view like I suggested before.
Please, please, please can you stop referencing other peoples work. Everybody agrees here that.. It just isn't helping- we get you're very good at googling!
1- if you look hard enough you can find evidence for absolutely anything- and pllleeeaaseeeee, using wikipedia as a source- pah!
2- many studies are just down right ridiculous and could be discounted in minutes. Some are just old and don't count anymore!

We ALL agree that tv isn't perfect, it's not to be used as a babysitter, it does have negative traits, it shouldn't be on 24/7... NOBODY has said any of these things Ok- we get what your saying! But you are making it out to be the devil and when people pull you up on the evidence you are providing you are silent...... Not a very good response I'm afraid 'love'