How old can babies watch TV? Can babies watch TV?

How old can babies watch TV? Can babies watch TV? Many babies develop the bad habit of watching TV since childhood. In fact, this is not good for the baby's physical and mental health. Today, I will give you a detailed explanation of babies watching TV, so that parents can guide their babies to have healthy living habits.

How old can babies watch TV?

Children under three years old should not watch TV

The baby's eyes are in a rapid development period when they are two or three years old. Before the age of three, the baby's eyes are not well developed, so it is not suitable for them to watch TV. If they watch TV too early, it will cause damage to the cornea and retina, affecting the development of vision.

Can babies watch TV?

There are many disadvantages for babies to watch TV. Let me introduce them to you one by one below.

Television deprives children of the opportunity to learn and use their brains

From birth to 3 years old, the child's brain develops at a very fast speed, and he is learning almost all the time. For example, when a child plays with his fingers, it involves the brain nerves that control the bending, extension, grasping and releasing of fingers; he pokes toys, bites them, and throws them on the ground, and they will have a further understanding of space and sound.

However, when children watch TV, they are like being hypnotized. The pathways in the mental center stop being established. They do not practice hand-eye coordination, do not use body functions, do not ask questions, do not use imagination, do not practice communication skills... Watching TV for one more minute deprives children of an opportunity to learn and use their brains. Look at the child watching TV, with dull eyes and slightly open mouth, and drooling without realizing it. Do you still want to see such a "demented" look?

Unexpectedly, TV makes children more active

Watching TV for a long time will have an impact on children's health, but it's not what you think - watching TV makes children lose the opportunity to exercise and become less active. On the contrary, many children become hyperactive after watching TV. The reason involves the problem of energy storage and release in the human body, which seems a bit mysterious.

When a child watches TV, the stimulation of the TV images makes his body want to move, but this stimulation is suppressed. The stimulated body energy is not used up, but stored in the body. Once the TV is turned off, this energy will be scattered everywhere without a purpose, and the child will keep moving around, even appearing to be unconscious. This is the sequelae of sound and light perception overload. The development of a child's physical function requires coordinated movement of the body and mind, not this kind of blind hyperactivity.

Television isolates children and makes them live in their own world.

The child is immersed in the TV screen, completely cut off from the outside world (he can't communicate with the TV because the characters on TV can't know his existence). As a result, some children will develop a sense of "my existence is unimportant and dispensable", and thus become hostile and aggressive, often yelling and losing their temper, as if only in this way can they prove their existence to the outside world. On the contrary, some children, due to the lack of communication with the outside world for a long time, live in their own world, and gradually become withdrawn, cold, and weak in willpower.

Children who like watching TV definitely don't like reading.

Scientists have proven that habitual TV watching has an opposing effect on reading. Watching TV mainly involves the recognition of pictures, which is a right-brain processing method, while the analytical thinking and procedures required for reading require the use of the left-brain processing mode, which is exactly the opposite.

In addition, the speed of TV pictures can easily distract children and reduce their ability to focus on printed words. When watching TV, children's eye muscles only need to focus on a fixed point, while reading requires relatively complex eye movements to assist. Therefore, reading is a "heavy" burden for children who like to watch TV.

Television kills children's most precious imagination

For adults, what is the most precious thing about children? Imagination! Because imagination is the most fundamental driving force for social progress. However, when children watch TV, the TV images have completely occupied their minds and time. They have no time to imagine, and the images created by adults have already helped them "solve" the problems they are thinking about. They don't need to imagine at all. If children rely on external forces to help them imagine for a long time, their inner ability to create images will gradually be obliterated. How terrible it is to be a person without imagination!

Things to note when your baby watches TV

For the healthy growth of children, parents should pay proper attention to the health and hygiene of watching TV:

(1) Eat more foods containing vitamin A.

(2) When watching TV, one should be at least one and a half meters away from the TV set, with the center of the TV screen at eye level to avoid eye fatigue.

(3) The brightness of the TV should be moderate.

Too much brightness can cause too much stimulation to the eyes, while darkness can also cause eye fatigue. It is best to install an auxiliary light source (less than 8 watts) in the room, corresponding to the TV screen.

(4) Pay attention to the volume.

Volume adjustment should be based on human hearing. If the sound is too loud, it is easy to be distorted and produce noise. The auditory organs of young children are delicate and their functions are not in the process of continuous improvement. Any slight adverse stimulation will bring danger and affect the normal development of hearing. Too loud volume will reduce children's hearing. Listening to loud speakers for a long time can cause hearing loss.

(5) Wash your face after watching TV.

After the TV is turned on, the electron flow inside the TV continuously bombards the screen, causing static electricity to be generated on the surface of the screen. The static electricity has an attractive effect on the air. According to tests, the dust around the screen usually contains a large number of abnormal particles of microorganisms. Such dust often attaches to human skin for a long time and damages the skin. Therefore, washing the face of children after watching TV can protect their facial skin.

I hope that after reading the introduction above, parents can let their babies get closer to nature and fall in love with reading books. This will not only protect the baby's eyesight, but also allow the baby to grow up healthier and happier.