Anonymous wrote:Spent my entire childhood watching TV went to HYP and med school.

eeks--though your post implies that you neither went to Yale or Harvard med... Too bad...

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Anonymous wrote:Spent my entire childhood watching TV went to HYP and med school.

+1 Me too, except substitute med school for top business school. My mother reminds me every day how many hours of unsupervised television time I had as a child.

So neither of you could be smarter, happier, healthier, or more fulfilled? Could you not possibly have more diverse interests? Does admission into top graduate programs justify everything you did prior?

I’m so far from anti-TV but am so tired of this ridiculous justification. You can’t prove e negative (which your top graduate programs should have taught you).

Anonymous wrote:Spent my entire childhood watching TV went to HYP and med school.

+1 Me too, except substitute med school for top business school. My mother reminds me every day how many hours of unsupervised television time I had as a child.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t worry about it! My 3 year old is at preschool because we couldn’t engage her all day in stimulating activities at home. She needs preschool.

Yup, same. Three months and we were tapped out of ideas. No place left to go, no siblings to play with, no play dates. He was spending way too much time just watching screens while we tried to juggle work. Returned to prek/daycare last week and he is in heaven.

Fwiw I've read that it's not so much that TV is bad, it's that kids who watch a ton of TV often gwt less of other enriching activities like reading, active play, etc. So all those studies that show TV correlated with negative outvomes are actually measuring the ABSENCE of educational activities like that. Sounds like you're hitting all those bases so I wouldn't worrry about it.

Fwiw, my 3 yo almost got no TV before all this because she spent weekdays at daycare and we had busy weekends. She's now averaging 2-3 hours of TV a day and I've noticed zero impact to her behavior or development. She's started writing, her vocab is growing, her pictures she draws are improving...all at the same time that her TV time has exploded. I just honestly don't think it matters.

Anyone who thinks it’s bad to have their kid watch a ton of TV needs to look in the mirror and ask yourself how much TV you watched as a kid.

My sister and I watched hours and hours of TV. We both graduated with honors from top research universities for undergrad and grad school. We have both enjoyed success in our careers. We turned out just fine, despite spending easily 6 hours a day watching Disney movies and Nickelodeon shows.

I don't think it's big deal. I mean, really, what else are you supposed to be doing? If you think it's a big deal then you can decide to take other courses of action (take time off to play with them, go outdoors, hire a babysitter, etc.) but each of those has it's own reward and risk. If watching tv works for you all, go for it.

My kids are older now but wow Disney+ would have been so awesome to have when the kids were little. Enjoy!

My kids have been watching about 3 hours of TV a day. It’s literally the only way I can get work done.

It will have to be fine.