Toddler TV – Driving You “(Down The Hills and) Round the Bend!”
Most of us parents would be happy to accept that allowing our children to watch copious amounts of television at the expense of more stimulating and enriching activities is not a good idea. However. Most of us will also happily admit that kids’ TV does have its place and use, and we therefore allow it to enter our lives, as I have found, with some amusing consequences. Being pregnant with baby number two as I recently was, I found that allowing my two-year-old to watch some TV from time to time would enable me to snatch a desperate daytime kip on the sofa, at times when energy reached an all-time low. TV (albeit the mobile phone YouTube variety) is also my tool of last resort when all else fails to entertain a toddler in a café or restaurant. The children's DVD's in our house have been recently moved to a high shelf in order to maintain optimum levels of parental control (and less pestering!) Toddler - "DVD's... too high up!" Me - "Yes. ...