TV is a contentious subject here 🙄

I do night wakings and then my partner takes over in the morning to let me sleep a few more hours, but lately it seems like he just turns Ms Rachel on right away and just sits looking at his phone while our 8 month old watches tv in his jumper. I told him it makes me uncomfortable how much we let him watch tv so young and that I would like for us to figure out what we want to do about it cause we've been letting him watch a lot lately. He became defensive like I was telling him he's a bad dad. I said I also have been letting him watch too much and can we figure it out together cause I don't want our child to develop ADHD like we have. I said, can we just not do it as the first thing and use it as a last resort? I probably shouldn't have said "last resort" and just say use it when you need to put baby down to get other things done or if nothing else is working because today I woke up and he was making breakfast with baby in the carrier in a petty way, cause it's hard to make a full breakfast while baby-wearing like to make a point that he wasn't letting baby watch tv and making his life harder by baby wearing the whole time 🙄 ughhhh
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I don’t think tv is terrible but just sticking them in front and not doing anything I think is the problem. I have the tv on constantly and so the kids watch it all day too but they are playing or we are playing with them. Maybe let him watch his show or Ms Rachel sometimes but also help him to find things to do with her because maybe he doesn’t know how. But also I wouldn’t push too much because you get extra time on the morning. So let him do what he wants to do with her and then maybe you can turn off the tv when you wake up

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