Does watching TV affect the baby's eyes? Will watching TV cause myopia?

Does watching TV affect the baby's eyes? Many mothers who take care of their children at home like to watch TV with their babies. Today, I will introduce to mothers the impact of watching TV on the baby's eyesight. Do you want to know how to correctly cultivate the habit of watching TV for your baby? Please see the detailed introduction below.

Does watching TV affect your baby's eyes?

Is it harmful for a 3-month-old baby to watch TV?

We say that a three-month-old baby can actually see farther away, especially obvious visual stimulation. However, the child cannot actually focus well at this stage, that is, he cannot see clearly. At this stage, if we provide him with more visual stimulation, it will affect his future visual attention experience. We know that the TV screen is jumping, and our eyeballs are not stable and motionless. So in such a process, constantly coordinating with the jumping of the TV screen and then adjusting will have some impact on the child's stable attention. So we hope to avoid providing him with such an environment as much as possible when he is young. Then the better stimulation around three months should be some information on paper media, whether it is a pattern, text, other Arabic numerals or some red dots on your picture, it is all fine. The flat stimulation does not have such a fast flashing process, and when it moves and changes, it also follows a relatively stable process. So at this time, such patterns are suitable for some games at this stage.

Does watching TV cause myopia?

Actually, it’s because I watched TV for too long or too close.

Research in recent years has shown that myopia is actually caused by a variety of reasons, but the most prominent are internal and external reasons: internal reasons - there is a family history of myopia, and the family is inherited; external reasons - looking at things at close range for a long time causes the ciliary muscle in the eyeball to lose elasticity and the lens cannot recover (thicker than natural), thus myopia occurs.

In fact, watching TV too close and for too long completely meets the external conditions that lead to myopia. Therefore, many children cannot see clearly after watching TV or computer for a long time. Therefore, parents generally believe that watching TV too close and for too long is the culprit of myopia.

Can babies watch TV?

You can refer to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Children under 2 years old should not watch TV at all. Children over 2 years old should watch TV for a maximum of 1-2 hours a day, with a 15-minute break. The retina of a child will not fully develop until the age of 12. Make sure the room is bright when watching TV. It is best for the baby to sit 2 meters away from the TV screen to watch, so as to better protect the baby's eyesight.

You need to instill these into your baby slowly and regularly. Babies like to watch TV because there is nothing better to attract them. It is recommended that you take your baby out to play often, get in touch with nature, let your baby play with children of the same age, or you can often tell stories to your child, read picture books, and play games. These can all be good ways to divert your baby's love of watching TV.