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I have a 3 year old, who is a handful. For the first couple years of her life, it was like tv didn''t exist, wasn''t interested in it at all. Now she is crazy for it. In the morning, in the evening, the mantra "I wanna watch tv I wanna watch tv". We do not have cable so her favorite is watching videos (children''s movies or sets of tv episodes like yo gabba gabba). We allow her to watch 1-2 hours of tv in the morning, and 1-2 hours of tv in the evening, but she would watch all the time if she could. To tell you the truth it is tempting to let her go ahead and watch because otherwise she gets into everything and wears us out, while when she is watching tv, she becomes docile and quiet (except she yells at the commercials "I don''t want this show!").
Early in the morning I woke up to the sound of the tv going. I walk in and she is sitting on the couch, watching a movie. She had -on her own- picked out a dvd, got it in the dvd player and pressed the play button to run the movie though we have never shown her how to do this. I thought her older sister must have done it but no, asked her how she did that and she demonstrated what she did. She was actually very careful taking the dvd in and out.
My question, is this a developmental thing, the interest in tv? Will it wear off when it''s not such a novelty? How much tv is too much tv?
Early in the morning I woke up to the sound of the tv going. I walk in and she is sitting on the couch, watching a movie. She had -on her own- picked out a dvd, got it in the dvd player and pressed the play button to run the movie though we have never shown her how to do this. I thought her older sister must have done it but no, asked her how she did that and she demonstrated what she did. She was actually very careful taking the dvd in and out.
My question, is this a developmental thing, the interest in tv? Will it wear off when it''s not such a novelty? How much tv is too much tv?