Children under two should not watch any television, agree or disagree?

I think it's a good idea to keep babies away from the TV as much as possible, the overstimulation can't be good for the developing brain. As for older children, I don't restrict television in my house. Yet I doubt if any one of my children watches even an hour of TV, at least in one sitting. The only time I see any of them actually sit and concentrate on it is if there's a movie on. The rest of the time, they may watch 5-15 minutes in between doing other things, then they're off again. Or they have it on as background noise. More often, the TV is used as a monitor for games, which again, rarely goes on for hours and hours here. Quality? Who decides what's quality? Is it only good television if it's a dear-god-stone-me-to-death this-is-so-boring documentary about how Gatorade is made? If so, then I'm guilty of letting my kids watch 'bad' television. Personally, I think TV is TV. The Fairly Odd Parents is no better or worse than Engineering an Empire. Just different interests. The only thing I really dislike on the TV is all this "reality TV." Mercifully, I've got company at home in that opinion so it's not on here much.

In theory I agree with the studies, but in reality-bring on Dora the Explorer when I need to get dishes done!

Moderation is my answer. I strongly limit my 22 month old's tv watching. She watches maybe 2 hours of television a week. Most times either myself or my husband is watching with her and we encourage her to interact if she wants with what she is seeing. Many times she will continue to talk about something she saw on TV for a few days afterwards which leads me to think that she is still processing what she did see. I will continue with this stand on television watching limits for as long as I can, hopefully throughout early childhood at least because I would like her to get out and explore the world for herself and interact with it as much as possible. It is important that she learns to entertain herself rather than be entertained by merely sitting back and watching someone else.

I disagree. I watched tv when I was little, usually it was sesame street or banana's in pajamas etc. They were fun and educational and you could 'interact' with them; singing and dancing and counting etc. When we used to watch movies my sister and I would end up making a cubby house with blankets and sheets and towels and chairs and have our dogs in there with us. These days though I think kids watch to much tv; they always seem to be sitting down watching one show or another and they are not all educational; they don't seem to have much imagination either anymore...tell some kids to play outside these days and they ask you what to do! Just make it so that they watch some but not all day.

disagree, i grew up with the tv and its way more educational then schools now adays, i learnt more on both the world wars form tv then school (they dont teach it where i live)

I some-what agree. I think children under FOUR, above 12 months, should be allowed 4 hours, maximum, a week. Under 12, none. Above 4, seven hours maximum.

I disagree that agreeing to the agreement that you are agreeing upon is quite disagreed.

My wife and I limit the time all our children spend watching t.v we have a 3 month old to a 13 year old. They only watch 1 or 2 hours of t.v a day other then that they are doing other things.

My child watched telly before he was 2, and he learned an awful lot from it. He wasn't always sitting in front of it, obviously I did spend a lot of time playing and teaching him, but kid's TV programmes are really educational a lot of the time. He was always coming out with new stuff, which he learned from watching kid's TV. The only harm that I can see, in watching TV, is if they're not doing anything else, and getting no exercise or other stimulation. Other than that, I don't see a problem with it.