Post #3 -- Title TBD

We are a plugged-in household. Meaning that we have a television on pretty much the entire time some one is home and awake. We do have some personal limits and boundaries, such as having a television on when some one is in the room sleeping or having the TV up loud enough for some one to hear in another room. But for the most part TV is a necessity for the news two times a day, and we generally play other programs during the day that are some times watched and sometimes used for "background noise." So of course we wondered from the beginning how TV time would effect our baby. Now, to begin with, the experts give some very unrealistic advice. They say that babies should not watch any TV up until the age of 2 or 3 depending on your source. Ok, so does this mean that households with babies in them should be essentially TV-free during the baby's waking hours? That is the only conclusion that I can draw from the advice. I will go into this issue some more in later posts because the education of babies and toddlers has hands-on interactive components as well as multi-media components, including television.