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Discover Television For Babies
When talking about my baby's love of television, I have gotten my share of sidelong looks. You know, the sort of looks that'd be outright horrified stares if the people I was speaking to knew me sufficiently well to let it all hang out. The people who know me sufficiently well to let it all hang out are also folk whose babies know a thing or two about TV. But I understand the looks. One or two short months ago, I would have been dishing them out myself.
Television was right up there with dummies as something I would never use. My baby simply would not be exposed to such things. He wouldn't have his feelings stuffed down by a soother; if he felt like crying, why then, he should let it out. He would not be plopped in front of a TELEVISION set child minder; I'd hold, cuddle and play with him 18 hours per day.
Then I had the baby
We held out on dummies for a month before he became intimately familiar with the wonders of his orthodontic Nuk soo-soo. Ironically, at virtually six months, he has hated the thing for a long time now and resists any attempts to stuff down his feelings with a little piece of plastic. So my worries about having to wean him off a soother when he is sufficiently old to hold down a clever conversation have been proved to be spurious. As for television, it might be a different story.
We first spotted the small tyke had an affinity for the Television for babies, when he was about three months old. Having just emerged from the newborn cocoon, we were making an attempt to recapture a vestige of our old lives by trying to watch some TV at the end of the evening before we passed out.
Baby should possibly have been in bed, but he didn't want to go and we did not want to spend the evening making him. So on went the Television. The sound and photographs obviously captivated the chick, but we didn't want him watching The Dark Knight, so we put him in his Fisher-Price bouncy chair and let the auto-tuned Caribbean music entertain him for awhile.
Heather Hadden is Toronto real estate agent, runnoing Toronto baby guide.
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