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Re:Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent ... by palmotea on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:58AM (#49434270)
> Why though? I’m very much not playing devil’s advocate here… but at 1 it’s like probably a bit of calming classic nursery rhymes with benign animations; maybe start to learn some counting and ABC’s by osmosis.

Kids, especially kids that age, don't learn from screens. They learn from interactions with people and the real world. A screen just mesmerizes them, and distracts them from higher value activities.

And you shouldn't be trying to teach 1-year-olds counting and ABCs, it's totally inappropriate. They're learning things like speaking, how to move their bodies, etc.

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Re:Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent ... by basch on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:45AM (#49436067)
>kids that age, don't learn from screens.

I'll disagree a bit, although arguably its mostly the audio. Good calm shows with wide vocabularies are similar to reading. Watching Stillwater is quite a bit different than watching Paw Patrol.

1 is quite a bit different than 2 though. It's good this differentiated between 1 and 1.5.

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