Screen time

I did the same girl.
Go on insta and them moms have a bunch of videos on how to entertain baby with things in your house. I remember zip bags with peas on tummy and music was a favorite of mine .

Also don't feel bad. Ms Rachel had my son reciting his ABCs at 10 months 😅

There is so much you can set up your 4 month old to do instead of screentime! Do you have room for a playpen? You could set up different activities and toys to encourage independent play. Life saver when you need to get jobs done!

I put blue painters tape on stuff with one end raised my little one loved to pull them up. From a teachers perspective, your limited the screen time which is the most important thing. Shows like miss Rachel (old miss Rachel) are great because they are slow paced and provide meaningful pauses. Don’t feel bad, you’re being mindful of it, screen time isn’t completely bad — too much of anything is bad for anyone like if I only ate apples all day everyday. Apples are considered healthy in moderation

When they wake up at they are happy, try to do as much stuff as possible. When they start getting fuzzy, try to do as much with a baby carrier! Get a playpen with a lot of different toy, when they get bored of one that’s when you add another one. It is still young at 4 months so it is mostly baby wearing at this age. Also, it is hard but instead of tv, make yourself interestin when doing chores and they will watch you instead of tv. Miss Rachel is definitely overstimulating I feel like with all the extra that they add

Speaking from experience I now have a 3 year old and I did the same thing you are doing when I was in the new mom/newborn trenches. I felt so much relief setting my baby to watch Ms. Rachel too so I could get house work done. I used screentime as a crutch because I didn't have any help and by the time she was 18 months, I started to regret doing screen time because my daughter slowly got addicted & so used to it over time that we had intense melt downs, tantrums, & bad behavior because of it. Kids already go through the melt down stages but this intensified it to the point where I did not want to have a Television anymore and wanted to desperately get rid of it. She would ask non stop for it to be on. To clarify I only had it on for like an hour a day at most, I had to slowly day by day lessen screen time and started doing more and more of hands on play activities. Switching to this made all the difference. When I stopped the screen time my daughter was happier, not acting like an addict w/meltdowns.

We used a playpen instead of screen time starting at 6 months. Independent play takes lots of practice and can be hard for babies at first but it’s only because they’re learning. Putting a screen in front of them takes away the opportunity to learn age appropriate independence skills and can cause developmental and emotional regulation delays. What we did was get in the playpen with them and play with them for a a bit, then gradually decrease the time spent playing with them and they learned how to play independently. Sometimes they would fuss a little when bored, but we’d wait like 30 seconds before responding because they’d usually end up finding a new toy to play with on their own (coping with boredom is another good skill). Now we have the freedom to do anywhere between 30 mins to two hours of housework at a time and our kids have experienced valuable learning opportunities

Dude, I don’t know but the TV is on a lot at our house. 🤷‍♀️ my children are happy and loved. I dedicate plenty of time to them without the TV and it’s not like I just have them blasted on an iPad all day or something. I think there’s nothing wrong with it.

Try music/audio - miss Rachel songs etc instead of tv I found at 4 months it kept my lo entertained for atleast 20/30 mins usually while she was in her baby gym

I would definitely find other ways to entertain your little one. He doesn't enjoy TV he is just stuck in these quick images and the screen light. I know it can be hard and I m not a zero screen ever type of person but really at 4 months old there's absolutely no point. Baby wearing of playpen with few toys, mirror, plastic bottle (literally clean trash with texture). Good luck mama.

Honestly, when my youngest was this age I sat him in his swing & he watched his brother, then 12, play oculus, he’d sit there moving his arms & legs around, I thought it was cute & don’t really see how it’s much different from Ms Rachel, her show gets them interacting with her, I like it, she kinda reminds me of me, mom like, which I feel like that’s what makes her so appealing to littles, then of course she’s an amazing human who actually cares about children, so us moms like that too. My then 12y had a 20min timer for VR back then, he’s a programmer & builds old school looking computers & tries to have some healthy habits since he’s on screens a lot, I’ve never had to tell him, he sets alarms & such, so the arrangement was perfect for cleaning up the kitchen or sitting down w/o being touched while I drank my coffee. I prefer to sit & watch shows w/my kids & talk about them, if I just must sit down w/tv on, at least until they can fully grasp the concept of the show they’re watching.