TV - How much is TOO much

Dis reg so..... elke kind is anderste en gaan deur fases. Tv is seker ook maar n fase, wie weet?

Ek sal regtig nie weet nie! Het nog nooit 'n kind gehad nie TV is seker fine solank dit gebalanseer is en nie 'n regte probleem raak nie. Een dag as ons kiddies ouer is dan kan jy sê of jou manier gewerk het dan sal ek vertel of myne ook werk of nie, deal?

Sorry for posting in Afrikaans....

As jy n kind ontneem van iets bv, tv, gaan hulle nie as hulle dit wel kry dan dit in oormaat probeer doen nie. Dis soos tjoklits, as hier baie in die huis is raak ek nooit lus nie, maar sodra hier nie is nie is ek so lus ek kan dood....

of is dit net ek wat so dink?

My biggest problem with this is my sisters 5 year old. (sorry if you ever read this!) They don't have dstv so she only watches it when at her grandparents. She then spends the whole day in front of the tv (a couple of time a week) She gets mad when you touch the remote, when we were eating she was trying to see past everyone to watch the tv. My sister says it only happens there but when they are home the two of them (she has an almost 3 year old little sister) watch dvd's for most of the day (I've seen shrek, nemo etc hundreds of times over and over)

I just don't know, I was a TV teenager and now regret the time I wanted to spend watching TV. My grades suffered and my eyes are shot.

We have to teach her three languages, so we are preparing ourselves,lol. Therefore the strange programming

LOL, we have three huge ass tvs, and getting more soon (hubby), but one is left on disney or baby tv and the other on arabic childrens cartoons and the other only on music dvds (Jan de Wet and that kind of kids dvds). The key is to make playing with toys more interesting than tv.....and although the tvs is always on, I hardly ever find myself even watching.

But I dont put on violent things when it looks like she is paying attention....as it might give her night terrors or nightmares. But that is a personal opinion.

I hated kowee in SA!!!!! Would drive me insane!

Thats my biggest problem. We also have a huge ass TV like you do and my husband usually switches it on every morning and it spends the whole day on Discovery. We do have an Afrikaans dedicated kiddies channel but I can sing all the songs already B does lose interest quickly when its grown up tv but still I really don't want her to grow up and be one of those kids who spend hours just staring at the tv.

When I keep an eye on her she isn't allowed more than 15min a day (which is all week, but weekends daddy is glued to the screen)