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There are immediate cognitive impacts on exposing children under the age of 2 to any sort of television programming: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/09/08/peds.2010-1919

If you ABSOLUTELY HAVE to put the kid in front of something, avoid any sort of fast-paced programs like SpongeBob like the plague. Shows where there are a lot of scene changes or a lot of random noises without an apparent cause are the worst for draining children's attention.

Optimally, though, the kid should have no screen time before the age of 2, and restricted to half an hour a day before the age of 5. After that point, it should still be kept to a minimum, but then you have to balance the tradeoff of social awareness versus cognitive processing. One of the main ways in which children relate to their peers is going to be television programming, so at a certain point it doesn't make sense to disallow absolutely everything.

idk how to feel about this, tbh. when i was growing up in the early nineties, i was allowed a half an hour of tv a day only when i was like four or five. before that, it was no tv time whatsoever, only books and the occasional movie. at my grandma's house, i got to watch more and did while i did my homework (lol solid decision making, me, but i made A+s consistently so what does it mean). video games were also not in the picture because my mom didn't like them AND again, early nineties so they were in their infancy.

limited tv time did lead me into being obsessed with reading, which meant i had a giant vocabulary and was above grade level, buuuut when i got older and eventually discovered the internet and was able to make my own screen time decisions, i became an internet addict. i possessed no ability to self-regulate because i never learned and was binging like a junkie.

i mean, in the end i'm glad for what my parents did, because reading to your kid is so so so important, yet i'm still not sure where i stand on no tv for babies vs. the alternative.

They're fucking babies. Having no screentime now is far and away the absolute best choice and allowing them to see it only has bad effects and would do absolutely nothing on thei ability to self moderate tv and media time later in life you dolt.

First off the study was on four years old only. This is important because a two year old and a four year old brain are vastly different. Hell a newborn's brain isn't really at the point where it should of been born, but because human have fucking weird anatomy it has to be born before that point. On topic, a child's brain doesn't stop forming synapse connections before it hits 3 normally.

Two that research is five years old and is nearing the end of it's shelf life for research and being a fact.

oh my god a little tv isn't going to kill a kid

you guys need to chill

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