TV Time

TV time was always limited for Srinidhi. He never cared for it much either. (Just like his mom! Before she met me, she only had the minimum six channels and watched less than 15 minutes of TV per day. I spoiled her and got her hooked on Sun TV :-). Even now she watches may be an hour of soap a day at most.)

For the first one year, we hardly showed Srinidhi any TV. Little bit of Teletubbies, little of Boohbah, an average of less than an hour a week, that's all. We deliberately avoided TV during feeding times.

When he turned one, we introduced Sesame Street and Jay Jay the Jet Plane and his TV time slowly increased up to an hour a day. Of course his most favorite was Elmo. He was hooked on Elmo for many months.

We soon discovered Noggin, which became our favorite channel. He watches many programs on Noggin; his most favorite is Maisy. Next favorites are Dora the Explorer and Blue's Clues.

Since turning two, his average TV time has increased to more than an hour a day. We allow him that for several reasons. First of all, when ever we ask him, he loves to turn off the TV to play with us or to go outside. (Only exception is during Maisy. Since he is so much in to Maisy, just yesterday we decided to ban Maisy for a month.) Second, he loves outdoors more than TV; he spends equal or more time playing outside in the deck and driveway. Third, he loves reading (with us) much more than watching TV; when we start reading to him, he won’t let us stop for hours.

We had not introduced any commercial channels (Disney, Nick etc) yet. Some other programs he watches occasionally:
Calliou
Little Bear
Franklin
Between the Lions
Dragon Tales
Barney

He does not like Connie the Cow and we keep him away from Oobi. Couple of characters he loves, even though he hardly ever watched them are, Thomas the Train (timing), Clifford (timing) and Winnie the Pooh (commercial channel).