tv or no tv in a 2 year olds room?

The TV should not be in your 2 year olds room. My children 3 and 18 months only get to watch maybe an hour a week and on long car rides they can watch education movies (Leapfrog, Baby Einstein). There is a direct correlation with children watching too much TV and short attention spans, also a higher chance of type II diabetes due to inactivity and weight gain later on in childhood.

You should NEVER let your child fall asleep watching TV this is a very bad habit to get into. When you fall asleep with the TV you don't get as restful sleep as you would if you fell asleep on your own, you are setting your daughter up for difficulties later on in life with her ability to fall asleep and awaken rested.

Your daughter will scream and yell and do whatever she has to do to get her way, you absolutely need to hold your ground. She will get worse before she gets better but in the end she will be fine. I tell my children they get 3 books to read and then they has to go to bed. We read books then I tell them about all the great things we are going to do the next day and how special they are and kiss them goodnight. They are great sleepers! It was a lot of work but well worth it.

All of these people are sooo judgemental. I have a 4 year old son, and when he was 2 we put a tv in his room. He knows he has limits with it. He watches a DVD before bed almost every night. At first turning it off was a hassle he would scream and cry, so we set up a tv time chart. Try something like that. Putting a TV in your child's room is not a bad thing.

I think the problem is you need to find a way to gently remind your daughter that you are the parents, not her. That is probably a big picture answer.

In the short term, you could put the TV on a timer. During the day tell her when the timer goes you will play a game or do an activity with her. Turn your TV off too. At night tell her the timer means it is bedtime.

If your daughter truly cannot sleep without the TV then you have a serious problem on your hands and should consult your doctor.

OMG!!Alright I'm not going to tell you if it's right or wrong or even what you should do.I have a tv in my 2 year old daughter's room.She sometimes watches it during nap time but never at night.My parents bought the tv for her.It's one of those little ones with a vcr built in.They got it because my daughter was DRIVING me CRAZY with Dora.I only let my daughter watch a few half hour episodes of Dora a day but let me tell you it helps sooo much.If we didn't have a tv for her I wouldn't be able to get anything done and everybody else would be complaining that they didn't wanna watch "baby" shows anymore.I don't think she's too young.As long as the tv isn't a babysitter then go for it.

I can see most people are in agreement here. A tv in a 2 year olds room is wrong. So wrong. Why are you letting your child watch so much tv in the first place?

I am sorry you are so stressed with this, but you put it onto yourself! You will have to deal with her temper tantrums for a little bit, but show her you are in control, DO NOT GIVE IN!

Try playing with your child, taking her to the park, reading a story. Turn off the tv. Make it so she can watch one or two shows a day. Not all day.

Sleep is SOOO important with children developing. TV is interferring with this. Something needs to be done.

Straighten her up before it is too late.

I say yes. Just limit how much of it they watch. this is a good way to enjoy 'grown up movies' in the living room without exposing kids to things they need not know yet. however, limiting the amount of tv is a good idea. at nap time unplug it and bedtime as well if you don't want her to fall asleep watching. I leave my 4 year olds tv on at night (as a nightlight) and then if by some chance she wakes up before I do in the am she has cartoons to keep her occupied until I get up. and just another bit of info...my 4 year doesn't take naps and hasn't since she was a baby, some kids just don't need them.

Remove the TV and take some parenting classes, she is way to young to be watching television consistently like that it sounds like that's all that child has been doing, what do you do all day? You have to play with a baby from the time they are born you cannot set them in front of a TV because you don't know what to do with them. OMG! seriously for the good of your little one I am sure you love her very much and now is the time to show her take her to the park and play ball with her take her to the pool this summer and go swimming with her, and if you have extra weight I don't want that as an excuse as to why you can't go, find your baby interesting and teach her things take her for walks and rides in her stroller play parachute with her (flutter a bed sheet up and down and she will love it) take her roller skating do face painting with each other, bake a cake and let her lick the bowl get a sand box and play in it with her let her bury you, let her play in the sink with water or get her a water table for the yard dam I could go on and on play dress up oh here's one get on the phone and call the junk yard to come and pick that brain fryer up children live what they learn mom so don't tell me you aren't a couch potato that relies on that TV for entertainment get up and get moving.

excuse me? your two year old wouldn't LET you watch TV? take the TV out of her room RIGHT away. she is controlling you. put on music for her to fall asleep to if she needs noise. she will probably scream and cry the first few times, but after a while IF YOU ARE CONSISTENT, she will earn that YOU are the boss and she gets no TV. TV should be a treat, something earned, not something she gets all the time.. stop letting her control you. good luck!

No tv in a 2 years old room thank you

tv is a bad idea for the childs room, my ex boyf's cousin, had a tv in her sons room, since he was born, and he is now 6 going on 7 yrs old and he "can't sleep" without the tv being on, she always put a movie on for him, 20% of the tim he would fall asleep to the movies right away, the onter 80% of the time he was up running around the house til 4 in the morning, whenever he would fall asleep to his tv and 4 hours later after the movie has been over with for 2 hours, he would wake up and if no one turned his tv back on for him, he would refuse to go back to sleep!