Almost every home has a TV. And someone from the family loves to watch it. Until a small child arrives, this is usually not a problem. Should you change your habits for the health of your baby?
Watching TV can be active (when a person is purposefully looking at the screen) and passive (when the TV works in the background, and we occasionally look at it). These types of TV viewing have different effects on young children. Let's figure out how harmful each of them is for.
Mom spends the whole day at home with the baby, who does not yet know how to talk. In order not to get bored, she turns on the TV in the background. In the evening, dad comes and after a working day wants to relax a little, watch the news or an interesting movie. This pattern is familiar to most families. A child under one year old can be placed in a crib or playpen so that he hardly sees the TV screen. But the kid will hear everything. Avoid films and programs with harsh sounds (for example, with shooting), with loud quarrels and screams, so that the child's fragile nervous system does not overexcite. Some neurologists believe that systematic listening to background conversations from the TV can subsequently lead to a delay in speech development.
Active TV viewing affects your baby's eyesight. Until the age of two, ophthalmologists do not recommend allowing the child to look at the screen. Also, television has a huge impact on the nervous system of the child. Instead of learning about the world, the kid looks at the screen and runs the risk of losing touch with reality, and in the future, strive to escape into the world of illusions.
