Is it harmful for my two year old to stand too close to the TV?
Nope. They just released not to long ago the results of research that they did on it and found it doesn’t hurt them at all, unless they pull the t.v. unto themselves. Here is an article on it. My two preschoolers like to sit very close to the television. Is sitting up close bad for their eyes? How far away should they sit? by Dr. David Guyton Most children who sit close to the TV do so to achieve the big-screen effect adults get at the movies. A few kids who sit too close to the set, however, simply cannot see well because they are nearsighted. You can determine whether your child has a vision problem by comparing his vision to yours. By age three, he should be able to identify small objects that are approximately half as far away as those that you can distinguish. By age six, he should be able to clearly see objects at the same distance that you can. Kids rarely sit close enough to the TV to do themselves harm, but it has long been suspected that focusing the eyes at a close distance
