Is watching a moving fan equally harmful to an infant's mental development as is a TV?
From: parenting.stackexchange.com/a/2714/2221
The recommendation against watching TV is not, as I understand it, because it shortens the attention span, but because it overloads the mind. A small child is not mentally capable of processing so much visual input and will be overwhelmed.
We have ceiling fans in all our rooms. Our 2 months old baby keeps on staring at the fan when lying on her back.
Considering the above quote is watching a moving fan equally harmful to an infant's mental development as is a TV?
If yes, what could be the preventive measures?
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Not being an expert, here is what I believe:
As Beofett points out in his comment, there's a huge difference between TV and a ceiling fan. The problem with TV is sensory overload because of the rapid change in colors, movements, shapes, and so on -- this is what babies see when they're too young to recognize the image as this is one scene, here's the next.
TV provides too much visual stimulation. A ceiling fan does not. I guess it would be a lot more soothing, although the rotation speed might be high. Also, the ceiling fan is high up and definitely out of reach; this adds both a physical and mental distance that you wouldn't have with a TV.
In that sense, a lava lamp might be ideal because of its slow changes in shape but not in color.
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