My kids watch an hour every morning and then often a little bit towards dinner time if I need to get things done solo. We use the abc iview app on the ipad here and they pick and choose their own shows. Dd was a playschool only girl until 3 when I introduced other shows. Now at 4 I have introduced her to movies like Cinderella. Ds is of cause exposed to all this at under 2. He has watched more tv than I would have liked, but hey, I'm a working mum studying my masters with my main support interstate. You do what you have to!
I was a tv addict as a child and still love tv each day. I think it depends on your child. Dd can watch quite a bit before getting narky. Ds has no ill effects at all.
Play School and Peppa Pig, so 30 minutes a day max, and I only use it when I'm desperate. Like KitFaerie, my DD1 gets really cranky after watching it, she seems to lose the ability to initiate play, so just ends up whingey and clingy afterwards, and it's not worth it.
She watches on the iPad, we don't have a tv, so it's easy to play the out of sight card.
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