Dancing Fruits issue

Has anyone had issues with their baby and dancing fruits on YouTube? It’s all my daughter wants to watch now and I want to get her away from this and playing with toys but she doesn’t seem to want to play or interact with anything I try

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I’ve heard dancing fruits is too over stimulating for them 🤷‍♀️ but a lot of kids programs are. X

My LO loves dancing fruits, but I only put her infront of them for max 10-15 minutes at any point and I don't put them on everyday. How old is your daughter? How often is/was she watching them?

I’d say just go cold turkey, she’ll soon learn she can’t have it and will interact. If I think my son has had too much screen time then we go a week or two with no tv or very little and he gets it and will play with all his toys

she is 5 months old. But sometimes it’s the only thing that will settle her when she is screaming. When we are home she watches it most of the day when I’m trying to do bits around the house, but if we’re out for the day then it’s never on. We do tend to go out most days anyway

I’ve read that it releases dopamine in their brains and quickly becomes addictive to them.. it’s why my partner doesn’t want our little boy to have any screen time at all til he’s at least 2 years old

There is zero reason a five month old should be having screen time, especially something overstimulating and created for the sole purpose of being distracting. The AAP recommends zero screen time until age 2. This is so important for your babies developing brain and attention span.

Have you tried a kick n play piano? Age appropriate interactive toys? I just let my 4 month old play with her toys on the floor of her nursery with the monitor on while I get chores done or I baby wear or I do it while she is napping. There are many, many alternatives to screen time!

why do I feel like I’m being judged? She has age appropriate toys yes, but she hardly seems interested in them. And she is awake a lot more in the day now so finding things to do with her when I need to get bits done is very difficult.
Recommendations are recommendations they don’t need to be listened to, I was asking for advice and I feel I’m being judged when this platform shouldn’t be like that. They say you shouldn’t wean until 6 months old but we are weaning now, am I gonna get judged for that too?

My LO has had screen time for ages so I'm definitely not judging 🤣 is it just Fruits she watches? There's Super Simple Songs that my LO likes as well which count/teach which she will watch. Also if your out most days she's obviously not glued to the TV screen! Have you bought her any fruits? I've got some plush ones that I'll play the music on Spotify and dance them around her so she's not watching the TV and is actively looking at the plushies and then she wants to play with them instead? They do a bag of them on amazon?

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Is this clever or cruel?

My husband and i were talking and with social media and the internet in general being a terrifying dumpster fire, we are trying to figure out the best way to keep our son safe while still teaching him how to safely be online and moderation.

We landed on the idea of giving him the 90's kid treatment. A computer in the living room for us to keep an eye on what hes doing online, and once we feel hes mature enough to hang with friends without adult supervision he gets a flip phone. When we feel he is responsible enough and he earns and saves up the money for the physical phone, case, and screen cover, then we will be happy to take him to get a smart phone.

I thought this was air tight, but now my brother says its cruel to give a kid a flip phone, and besides he can just use his friends phones at school.

My husband and i remember a time before the internet, and we remember having complete access to something no one understood yet. We saw unspeakable things and are always battling with the urge to put the phone and social media down. I dont want that for my son, especially with his brain so vulnerable still.

If your partners parent passes away

And you and that parent didn't get along are you still go to the funeral?

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Has anyone else been told it won’t start until May?

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How would you react?