T.V, sippy cups and speech

i have never heard of any of that in all my studies, is PAFT run by qualified people or just people with opinions?

can you put a stereo on instead so that the house isnt so quiet?

I have heard that babies shouldn't have bottles from 12 months onwards but never heard that about sippy cups. I always thought once the bottles are out that is the alternative until they can drink from a normal cup. Having said that Spencer still has bottles at the moment but will be weaning as soon as he will actually drink his milk from a sippy cup.
No idea about the TV but I wouldn't have thought them having it as background noise would make any difference what so ever and I thought them watching them caused more problems with eyes/reading than with talking.

Bah I would take that advice with a grain of salt. There are a couple of programmes Ashleigh watches most days. Mainly so I can have a shower in peace and also cook her dinner in peace. And at 24 months, she is still have 1 bottle of milk a day - she just won't drink out of a sippy cup. She has a straw cup for her water and still hasn't mastered using a normal cup without spilling it all down herself.

Paige watched and watches loads of tv....mostly on weekends these days or from 6:30 for an hour but when she was little she watched tons of DVDS...WIGGLES..Blues Clues etc...She is 9...brainy as a button and gifted...she also used TT sippy cup til 3ish cause I couldnt be bothered with the mess....There is no problem with her whatsoever....

Re bottles......do know of two girls who had bottles up til 2 1/12 and it completely ruined their teeth...NOT their speech!!!!

Paige and Blake never had bottles and I stopped the inaugral Milk deal well before Paige was 18 months as been brainwashed by Paeds they dont need bottles of milk after 12 months as should be getting calcium requirements from food etc....

I also would take it with a grain of salt!

We often have the TV on as background noise aswell. Keira usually ignores it but will often stop to watch Hi-5 and dance around. She does often watch it while eating breakfast and when we are getting ready.
Keira is a very advanced talker - she doesnt stop!
She also still has a bottle sometimes when she sleeps at night. We usually just leave it in her bed and occasionally when she wakes up and is thirsty she has a little drink and falls back asleep. Although we are trying to give up that. Anything else gets the bed too wet. I give her sippy cups for her to have little drinks during the day otherwise we end up with a lot of spit drinks to clean up.

ok, Caitlyn was saying 3 word sentences by her first birthday , her vocab list at one was 60 words, by 18months it had nearly doubled, and she watched Bumble every morning and may have got a glimpse of Oprah while i was watching it and she was toddling around .


As for the bottle /sippy cup thing....i cant actually remember !

We have tv on most mornings for 1/2 hour so I can get through the shower and know that the kids are not getting into mischief. Then maybe again for max of an hour later in the day. I tend to save tv for those times when I really need it as if it's on all the time here the kids tend to switch off to it and i can't simply suddenly tell them "time to tune into the box now". I too hate aquiet house and have music on constantly, we usually play a couple of the kids cd's and then some of mine or the radio.

As for the sipper cups my 2yo still has one when having anything but water as I got soo sick of our cream carpets getting marked. He has very advanced speach so I'm not in agreement with PAFT's theory there.

Charlotte is allowed to watch a maximum of 1 hour a day- it usually winds up closer to 30 mins. I would much rather her be playing, reading or running around outside than stuck inside watching TV. I also find on the odd occasion she has got to watch more than an hour she isn't as well behaved. When they're watching TV they aren't interacting with you, they aren't using their imagination- so it makes sense it would be less stimulating for them to watch TV rather than do other stuff.

Kate watches no TV at all. Like with Charlotte, I'll let her start watching the odd thing once shes 2.

Studies have shown a direct link between how much TV a child between 1 and 3 watches to both childhood obesity and ADD link. Peace- this one is more 'scientific' but I thought the other one gave the gist in layman's terms rather than all the fluff of this one link they both make the same points, this just has the scientific proof to back it up.

As with the cup/bottles- I guess it makes sense that any kind of constant 'unnatural' type sucking would make the muscles develop in a certain way that could effect speech. Its one of those things though- makes life very tricky giving a 12 month old open cups! Kate has her 3 sets of milk out of a tommee tippy sippy cup and her water out of the straw one. I can't see those changing for a while!

Edited by Jennz

Sorry Jennz, but that link isn't the greatest, there is no facts nor figures or results from studies it's just "TV is bad for under 2's mmk" then it talks about it being OK for kids 3-5...

I do remember watching on the news (TV3, sorry I have no linkys) that 1/3rds of all ADD/ADHD behaviour is attributed to TV watching and 2/3rds of that is also related to environment and parenting.

SimoneF wrote: sorry i didnt mean for my comment to sound rude before about the paft people, it just sounded very similar to something my jumping beans lady would say and it gets up my nose a little bit hehe

Hehe no I thought you were really asking if they were qualified lol. Im a bit annoyed about it too lol