Dancing fruit - Hey bear sensory

Heya Mummas! Anyone else struggling to get their LO to watch anything else?
She loves the dancing fruit, moon and everything else on Hey Bear sensory. She like Bing but doesn’t stay interested for long. Jojo and gran gran she’ll watch a little, I’ve tried all the old skool kids programmes too. All the sensory ones for babies on YouTube for learning etc… Gracie’s Corner she’ll watch a little but she only like the good morning song. I’ve tried everything from Netflix to YouTube and so many other shows. But Dancing fruit is the only thing that has her proper HOOKED! To a point she just sits there and zones out watching it babbling away. Have you guys got any other suggestions you’ve tried ? Xo

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Have you tried Miss Rachel? It’s second best to dancing fruits for my little boy but he still loves it.

We also watch the Wiggles nursery rhymes and Bookbugs recordings together and I sing along and do the actions with him.

I know you’ve said you’ve tried the old school programmes, have you tried teletubbies? My friend put it on for her little boy when she was at my house and my little girl loved it

Screens are not recommended before age 2. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises eliminating screen time for children younger than 2 years completely, linking it to language learning delays. Good evidence suggests that screen viewing before age 2 has lasting negative effects on children’s language development, reading skills, short term memory, and increases their chances of becoming overweight or obese as they get older. It also contributes to problems with sleep and attention.

Dory’s reef camera on Disney+ my little boy loves that at the moment

Strange one but my little boy absolutely loves the David Attenborough Planet earth series on BBc I player. Doesn’t take his eyes off the screen 🤣🤣

Our LG loves Bollywood🤣 the colours and songs and dancing she’s obsessed. I try have her watch little Einstein’s on Disney as it’s all musical and very educational but she does only last one episode at a time as it can overwhelm her a bit x

I could genuinely care less. I sing a long and play with my child. Putting on a programme once a day isn’t a bad thing. How about we normalise letting mothers raise their children the way they want to. Not the way others have ‘recommendEd’ or what a book says, or a mother who doesn’t know you says. Have a nice day ✌🏾

I totally forgot about teletubbies !! 😂 I’ll try that. Thank you xo

Oohh not heard of that one. I’ll give it a go. Thank you xo

I mean I’m the same watching David Attenborough. That’s a good shout actually. Thank you xo

funnily enough, my little girls gods mother is Manali our babies are the same age. She puts the mantras and Bollywood songs and videos on for them when I’m round. My little one loves the mantras xo

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