Television for Children

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Clisby wrote:
FinnFactory wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

My kids are 6 and almost 12. We don't have a TV. We occasionally get
DVDs from the library and watch them on one of the computers.

Both of mine use the computer. The 6-year-old is a big fan of
nickjr.com, and my daughter likes neopets.com, among others. They both
like youtube.

Clisby


I should have added - if they have access to TV, which they usually do
on vacations, they both like Animal Planet, and they often like shows on
the Discovery Channel or the History Channel. They also like Cartoon
Network, but my husband and I limit that severely because we find most
of it so annoying.

Clisby

On Apr 14, 3:21*pm, FinnFactory wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

I'd like to be able to program a TV to shut off automatically after
it's been on for two hours (say) in the last 24 hours. Or to work only
for scheduled hours during the day, say 3-5pm. To use the TV at other
times, the user would need to know the password that "unlocks" the TV.
Just a locking feature alone (similar to what one can do with
computers) would be useful. I wonder if such televisions exist.

"Beliavsky" wrote in message
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I'd like to be able to program a TV to shut off automatically after
it's been on for two hours (say) in the last 24 hours. Or to work only
for scheduled hours during the day, say 3-5pm. To use the TV at other
times, the user would need to know the password that "unlocks" the TV.
Just a locking feature alone (similar to what one can do with
computers) would be useful. I wonder if such televisions exist.

We have DIRECTv and it has a feature that allows us to control the amount of
time, the rating and the channels that the children can watch. It requires
a passcode to bypass. So far, I only use the rating feature to block
unsuitable programming, since DH likes to record adult channels.

On Apr 14, 12:21 pm, FinnFactory wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

The Bug, almost 5 years old, watches more TV than she used to now that
we're home more and I have her baby brother to tend to. Probably now
3-4 hours/week. Mostly Sesame Street and Super Readers, some Dragon
Tales, some videos (mostly Disney or Pixar, also Planet Earth
series). We don't have cable so there's much less for us to choose
from -- which is overall a good thing.

Kate, ignorant foot soldier of the medical cartel
and the Bug, 4 and a half and three quarters
and Little Dude, 1 month old

Beliavsky wrote:

I'd like to be able to program a TV to shut off automatically after
it's been on for two hours (say) in the last 24 hours. Or to work only
for scheduled hours during the day, say 3-5pm. To use the TV at other
times, the user would need to know the password that "unlocks" the TV.
Just a locking feature alone (similar to what one can do with
computers) would be useful. I wonder if such televisions exist.

Odds are that you have some ability to do some of this
with what you already have, either via the V-chip or through
cable or satellite boxes. Even if you don't have very sophisticated
options, you can usually at least block pretty much everything,
requiring the passcode to watch anything.

Best wishes,
Ericka

Beliavsky wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:21 pm, FinnFactory wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

I'd like to be able to program a TV to shut off automatically after
it's been on for two hours (say) in the last 24 hours. Or to work only
for scheduled hours during the day, say 3-5pm. To use the TV at other
times, the user would need to know the password that "unlocks" the TV.
Just a locking feature alone (similar to what one can do with
computers) would be useful. I wonder if such televisions exist.

We have digital video, and we record all my son's programmes and he
watches them on video. This way, he watches only specific things that
my husband (the main childcarer) feels are good quality programmes,
which is an approach I much prefer to that of only watching X hours of
TV regardless of how good or bad the quality is. Also, we can
fast-forward through what he calls the "omershal breaks". I guess this
approach won't work forever (he's now 3) but it works well currently.


All the best,

Sarah
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"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell

FinnFactory wrote:
What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

When our kids were that age, we only had acces to the five broadcast TV
channels in the UK. They did have children's programs but at set times
(eg a ten minute program at 1pm, from about 3.30 - 6pm). This provided
a natural restriction.

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three

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FinnFactory wrote:

What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

There's WHAT you let them watch, how long you let them watch for, and under
what circumstances they watch.

As DS1 got older (4ish), he became very interested in the factual programs
that run here 6:30-7pm. This worked out well as it gave me time to cook
dinner. Earlier, he liked Playschool (classic Australian program for
preschoolers), Bananas in Pyjamas, and The Wiggles. We also get a lot of good
British programs. DS2 (nearly 3) likes Postman Pat and Bob the Builder. Also
Wallace & Gromit and in fact anything from Aardman. DS1 (7 now) finds Robin
Hood a bit scary, but DS2 loves it.

I think a lot depends on your child. Some children like music-based programs;
some are easily frightened or distressed, to the extent that typical plots
(eg, exclusion of someone from a game) might be too upsetting. I feel that
DS1 would get only the wrong messages from the Simpsons, so he's not been
allowed to watch it, even though I think it's quite clever and amusing.

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FinnFactory wrote:

What do you let your kids watch - around the age of 3-5 years old? My
kid is a bit older than 2 years and we usually restrict her to
watching videos or pre-taped shows. Moving past 2 years, what do you
usually let them watch? honestly..

There's WHAT you let them watch, how long you let them watch for, and under
what circumstances they watch.

Yep. The guidelines are just guidelines.


As DS1 got older (4ish), he became very interested in the factual programs
that run here 6:30-7pm. This worked out well as it gave me time to cook
dinner. Earlier, he liked Playschool (classic Australian program for
preschoolers), Bananas in Pyjamas, and The Wiggles. We also get a lot of good
British programs. DS2 (nearly 3) likes Postman Pat and Bob the Builder. Also
Wallace & Gromit and in fact anything from Aardman. DS1 (7 now) finds Robin
Hood a bit scary, but DS2 loves it.

I think a lot depends on your child. Some children like music-based programs;
some are easily frightened or distressed, to the extent that typical plots
(eg, exclusion of someone from a game) might be too upsetting. I feel that
DS1 would get only the wrong messages from the Simpsons, so he's not been
allowed to watch it, even though I think it's quite clever and amusing.


My son loved videotapes about things like skyscraper building and highway trucks
since he was a toddler. He watched some cartoons, but beyond a certain amount
of that I gave him a list of cable channels he could watch - History channel,
Discovery channel, NatGeo channel. As he's never been an avid reader partly due
to a visual problem, he has gotten a lot of learning from these. Enough to be
the 5th grad school geography bee champ, in fact.

He also gleans a lot from the news-oriented programs I like to watch.

Since he was about 12 he has had his own TV in his downstairs mancave.

Banty