Did I ruin my daughter!?

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My daughter is 15 months. She plays and walks, babbles like crazy and says a few words. She also loves TV and her favorite show is puppy dog pals. Sometimes when I’m doing homework (online college) I let her watch tv and she sits contently. Now I’ve read so many articles about how there shouldn’t be any screen time at all before 2 and it ruins brain and cognitive development. I feel like I’ve ruined her. When I want to sit a read books to her, she just runs off to play but I thought it’s just because she’s in that exploring stage. Now I feel like it’s because of screen time. Please tell me I’m wrong and being paranoid. I definitely plan on limiting screen time now but I hope it didn’t cause anything wrong already.

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I can’t read books to my child, she flips the pages too fast 😂 I’ve given up and we just point things out on book pages and that entertains her longer and she’s learning words. Also, our tv is always on in the background so solidarity, mama ✊🏼

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Our daughter only pays attention to Mickey Mouse and Doc mCSTUFFINS so we let her watch two episodes a day. If we watch our typical adult tv she doesn’t pay attention. The way I see it, we all grew up in front of the tv and turned out just fine. No mom guilt here🤷🏻‍♀️

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To get any of our babies to sit still right now I feel like is damn near impossible. Screen time is not bad... unless it’s all day. My daughter has her screen time and we have a cabinet of her books in the living room that we leave open when she has Disney jr time and she’ll go back and forth by herself from watching puppy dog pals or pj masks to taking out some of her books and exploring them by herself.

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Ours has never had any screen time (except occasional Skype with family) and she still loses interest in most books after a page or two. I wouldn't worry too much - I think they're just not very patient yet.

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I wouldn’t worry too much. Nowadays these studies try to instill fear on mommies, and often many of these things were done for years without any real proven adverse effects on children. My brother for example loved TV, he especially liked Sesame Street and would watch it every day among other shows. My mom always had the TV on in the background. He always was in advanced placement classes and later at the top of his class  at a college preparatory high school. So it didn’t seem to bother him.  I think as long as you make time to teach her new things daily and expose her to education away from electronics, she will be fine.

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My son doesn’t watch tv, it’s on but he has zero interest in it. He also brings books and leaves two pages In. Your little girl is ok! I think it’s normal behavior

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No you didn’t ruin your daughter. My lo watches Disney movies at home. She loves them. But most of the time she’ll sit for maybe 10 mins then she’s off playing with her toys and exploring. She also brings me books to read to her however she only sits half way through the book. Not to worry! I would just limit it throughout the day if you can.

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She’ll be fine. Don’t be so hard in yourself! A little bit of tv won’t hurt her. Heck, I wish my daughter would watch tv contently from time to time so I could get some work done

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She sounds fine, my daughter only sits and watches tv when she’s really tired or just wakes up and we’re being lazy in bed. But I always read those articles and I felt bad because she has an iPad already and she’ll watch kids YouTube and that “bad” for them too but she knows her shapes from it and learned how to match items and sizes

Did I ruin my daughter!?

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