And preferably without littering the house with the detritus from ten thousand craft projects. Every single one of which she insists on taping to a wall.

Reading Rainbow?

that might be on the list, yeah

At first I was worried that she would just end up watching TV all the time and developing terrible habits as a result, but she seems to be self-limiting after a couple of hours (likely, I suspect, because she doesn’t like to sit still for that long) which has been... a blessing and a curse, what with the baby.

I've found most kids don't want to sit and watch TV all day if they actually have options in an enriching environment

kids just aren't that passive unless you train them to be

^^^^^^^

They want to do things and make things and explore their world.

aikonamika: tried kiddo on Reading Rainbow today and the verdict is: she likes it!

We've started watching classic Mr Rogers's Neighborhood.

we tried kiddo on that, but she likes Daniel Tiger better

What helped was finding a series of episodes that involved dinosaurs. That was definitely a winner.

that'd do it, yeah

Wishbone might be a bit old for her, but even my littlest loved that when her older sisters were watching it

Fuzzytale: yeah, probably. It’s on my mental list for when she’s a bit older though!

Reading Rainbow is awesome!