Why I Don’t Let My Toddler Watch Just Anything

As a single mom, I often feel guilty about letting my two-year-old watch TV. But instead of trying to eliminate TV altogether, I became very intentional about what she watches. For much of my daughter’s first two years, I could usually recognize where the words, ideas, and concepts she used were coming from because I knew what she was being exposed to. In this video, I share how I slowly built her small rotation of shows, why I introduced them one at a time, what I looked for in shows like Little Bear, JoJo & Gran Gran, The Magic School Bus, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Family Matters, and Handyman Hal, and what happened when I stopped trying to turn TV into school and simply watched what she did with the information. That experience eventually became Manicured Media: personalized children’s media recommendations built around the individual child, their environment, and what their parents actually want for them. Because most parents don’t have countless hours to sit and watch children’s television—and I think they deserve a little breathing room, too. Learn more about Manicured Media at HomegrownThinking.com. Chapters: 00:00 Why Manicured Media 01:31 Choosing Her First Shows 04:52 Building Her TV Rotation 10:16 I Stopped Quizzing Her 11:07 Seeing It in Real Life 14:07 Why Repetition Matters 14:52 How Manicured Media Works — Homegrown Thinking documents everyday conversations between me and my daughter in Cambodia. And what those conversations build. 🌐 More real, unscripted moments at homegrownthinking.com 📖 Read the book: homegrownthinking.com/book 🎁 Free guide — Teaching Without Teaching: https://homegrown-thinking.kit.com/81... 🎁 Free stage-by-stage guide — Talk With Them: https://homegrown-thinking.kit.com/7b... 🌱 Get the unfiltered version here: https://homegrown-thinking.kit.com/b2... #homegrownthinking