What should I do if my baby loves watching TV? Does it have any effect on the baby's eyes?

What should I do if my baby loves watching TV? Many children love watching TV. Parents think this is a bad habit. So, how should we change this habit? What are the effective ways to deal with it? Please see the detailed introduction below.

What to do if your baby loves watching TV

How to get your kid away from the TV

Letting children watch TV too early and too much can be said to be "full of dangers". Do you regret letting your children develop this habit? So, how can you pull your naughty children away from the TV? This requires some time and skills:

1 Appropriate criticism

Psychology believes that it is extremely important to give children appropriate praise and criticism. However, criticism is not to solve the problem by beating or scolding. The best way is to implement "consequence revenge", that is, if children watch too much TV, parents can prohibit or reduce their TV watching to correct their personality defects such as loneliness and not communicating with others.

2. Communicate more with your children

It is unwise and impossible to completely ban children from watching TV. The best way is for parents to watch TV with their children and use this opportunity to communicate with them. This will not only improve children's appreciation ability, but also enhance the relationship between the two generations. It also provides children with opportunities to communicate with others and exercise their language skills. Gradually, children will be more willing to confide their thoughts to their parents, making it easier for parents to understand and guide their children in a timely manner.

3. Play with your children

Some parents turn on the TV to divert their children's attention because they are afraid that their children will cry, and push their children to the TV to "take care of" them, which creates an emotional distance between the two generations. This is irresponsible to children. Therefore, parents should try to take time to play games, walks, and parks with their children, provide children with a wide range of activities, and let them understand that there are many interesting things in the world besides TV.

4. Parents should say goodbye to TV first

As the saying goes, "If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked." If parents are addicted to TV every day, it is hard to imagine that their children can resist the temptation. Parents are the first teachers of their children. Their words and deeds will affect their children's growth. Therefore, when parents discipline their children, they must first "discipline" themselves.

How to protect your eyes from myopia when watching TV

1. Habit

You cannot watch TV while eating, as this will affect your baby's eating. At the same time, you cannot let your baby watch TV while playing. You need to cultivate your baby's good habit of doing things attentively. Playing is playing, and watching TV is watching TV.

2. Time

As the baby gets older, a short 15 minutes may not be enough to meet his needs. In this case, you can appropriately extend the time the baby watches TV. The specific extension time will be determined based on the baby's age. However, it is best that preschool children do not watch TV for more than half an hour a day.

Sometimes, babies watch TV not just for early education, so there are some things to pay attention to when choosing TV programs. Don’t let your children watch violent or stimulating programs, especially before going to bed, otherwise it will directly affect the baby’s sleep quality. These violent scenes will appear in the baby’s dreams, and the baby will wake up in shock or have an unreliable sleep. While watching TV, if the mother can watch with the baby, tell the baby the story content, and help the baby analyze it, I believe the effect will be twice the result with half the effort.

Watching TV does not necessarily lead to myopia, giving your eyes a proper rest is the best way!

What to do if your baby is addicted to watching TV

Generally, introverted babies like to stay at home quietly and watch TV, but it is very annoying when babies become addicted to watching TV. Not only do they forget to eat, but they also don’t want to sleep. Facing such babies, mothers need to spend some time to discuss with them how long they can watch TV before they watch it, and turn off the TV when the time is up.

How long is appropriate for babies to watch each time?

Babies should not watch TV for too long. 20-40 minutes each time is appropriate, and it is best not to exceed an hour. During commercial breaks, you can take your baby to the balcony to rest, and don't let your baby stare at the TV all the time.

What kind of TV is suitable for babies to watch?

There are not many suitable programs for babies, most of which are children's cartoons, and babies can't understand other programs. For cartoons, you can choose mild and educational ones. If there are violent crime plots and words, it is best not to show them to babies, because babies may imitate them out of curiosity, which may lead to danger.

Babies will encounter various problems in the process of growing up, and these problems need parents to spend time to solve. Therefore, being a parent is a very tiring but interesting thing. In this process, parents grow up with their children. Take watching TV as an example. If we want our babies to watch TV reasonably, should we make the same efforts?