When T1 was a baby, I allowed her to watch those Baby Einstein videos that were supposed to stimulate babies. Those days, they weren’t available in KL and we had to either purchase them overseas or stole them from friends. At some point, they made it to KL and were RM100 each! 5 years later, you can now get them for RM20 per pop. How unfair.

Anyway, T1 loved them as a baby and I swore that it was what made her smart. However, just last year, researchers came out and said that Baby Einstein had done false advertising and that there was absolutely no evidence that they made babies smart and for this, Disney offered to compensate all consumers for the Baby Einstein videos that they’d purchased. I just wasn’t bothered to claim compensation as it took effort and I am by nature, a darn lazy person.

With T1, we only ever let her watch those Baby Einstein videos for less than half an hour per day and then when she reached 2 plus years old, I think it was, I finally introduced her to the big wide world of TV. She watched Playhouse Disney for the longest time (up to almost 5 years old before she discovered other channels) but only for up to an hour per day when she herself would switch off and want to do something else. Her attention span couldn’t take TV or anything for that matter for too long. The Hubs swears she has my genes as he says I can never focus on anything for too long as I get bored. We know, of course, that he’s talking through his arse, as he usually does. And by the time T1 started talking more and more, I’d wished she’d watch more TV but she just isn’t one who can glue herself to the TV!!!

They say that watching too much TV causes a child to have a shorter attention span as the child is constantly stimulated with moving images and the brain becomes lazy. Besides, it is bad for their eyes and weight/health. To counteract this, give your kids lots of manual jigsaw puzzles to accomplish.

Now that I have T2 and no help, hoo-hoo-hoo……it has been my number one mission to TRAIN T2 to LOVE the TV. Start young!!! I don’t care how short her attention span will go or if she becomes colour blind with 20 inch thick glasses, I just want her to love the TV. So here she is, under commando training with her daily dose of TV.

And she gives me a cheeky smile when she catches me snapping a picture of her watching TV.

Personally, I think everything and anything is OK in moderation.

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Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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