Can babies watch TV? Parents must pay attention!

When children reach a certain age, they will start to be interested in TV. When they are older, they will become addicted to TV. At this time, parents need to pay attention. First of all, there is no need to completely prevent children from watching TV, but they must master the correct way to watch TV.

1. Babies are very sensitive to television when they are about one and a half to two months old. An 11-month-old baby can already see and hear some of the scenes on TV. Once he sits in front of the TV, he will stare at it very quietly. However, if this continues for a long time, it will be bad. The baby will react to the mechanical sound and will not respond to the mother's voice. Television produces mechanical sounds, while human sounds are physical sounds. If the baby's brain is allowed to adapt to mechanical sounds, it will become completely unresponsive to the mother's physical voice. This is an important cause of autism.

2. An Australian professor said: "When watching TV, the left cortex of the brain, which is responsible for vision, analysis, and calculation, will be scattered as the attention moves with the movement of the picture. On the other hand, the right cortex that receives color signals will lose its information inhibition ability, reducing the pathways between the left and right cortices, and presenting an inertial state of brain structure damage." Therefore, watching TV will have the following adverse effects on children:

1. It is not conducive to the baby's vision development. Babies' eyes are still developing and their vision is not yet perfect. The constantly flashing light from the TV can cause refractive errors, strabismus, and esotropia, especially when viewed from a large TV screen at close range. The damage is even greater.

2. The electromagnetic waves emitted by the TV when watching TV are also harmful to the baby's health.

3. The rapid switching of TV images can cause attention disorder, making it difficult for children to concentrate on one thing.

4. Watching TV is a passive experience that will cause children to form a "lack of vitality" brain activity pattern, which is directly related to the dullness of intellectual activity.

3. Experts remind: Preschool children should develop good habits when watching TV, otherwise it will cause harm to their health.

1. Avoid taking too long

Children are in a period of rapid physical and mental development. Watching TV for a long time every day can easily cause fatigue in children's nervous system and body, affect their physical and mental health development, and affect the normal progress of other activities such as learning. It is best to limit the TV watching time for preschool children to less than 40 minutes a day.

2. Avoid being too close

Preschoolers always like to sit in the front when watching TV. In this way, the child's eyes are stimulated by the strong light from the screen for a long time, which will not only easily reduce the child's visual acuity and adaptability, but also easily cause the reduction of the adjustment function of the ciliary muscle, the lens gradually becomes convex, and lead to the occurrence of myopia. Generally speaking, when watching TV, it is best to place the child's seat 2.5 to 4 meters away from the TV.

3. Avoid too high volume

When preschool children watch TV for a long time, they are stimulated by high volume, which can not only reduce their auditory sensitivity and form bad auditory habits, but also easily lead to a decrease in visual sensitivity. On the contrary, using a relatively low volume can greatly promote the development of children's hearing, vision, attention, etc.

4. Avoid too dark light

When watching TV, if the indoor light is too dim, it will affect the development of children's visual function and easily lead to the occurrence of myopia. When watching TV with your children at night, do not turn off all the lights. Install a small red light behind the TV to protect their eyesight.

5. Avoid sitting in an incorrect posture

When children watch TV, they sit in a crooked position, such as leaning on a quilt or lying in their parents' arms. This can easily cause the child's unformed spine to deform and bend, and develop bad sitting habits.