What’s a good present for a mum of two under two?

*The research is also mixed on whether or not these traits are truly harmful to kids. In 2011, researchers found that watching nine minutes of fast-paced programming could impair a child's executive function, which is the set of cognitive skills needed for* [*impulse control*](https://www.parents.com/ways-to-teach-children-impulse-control-1095035)*, planning and organization, task initiation, memory, and flexibility.**^(1)* *But then in 2015, the same researcher, Angeline Lillard, a developmental psychologist at the University of Virginia, conducted another study.**^(2)* *This time, the team concluded it was the "fantastical content" of shows, not their pace, that was an issue.* ***In both studies, the effects were short-term.*** \- [https://www.parents.com/news/some-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-insome-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-in/](https://www.parents.com/news/some-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-insome-think-cocomelon-is-too-stimulating-for-their-kids-we-asked-an-expert-to-weigh-in/) Pretty sure they‘ll be fine for the length of a bath. But yes, other shows do exist - in my day it was a saggy old cloth cat, a carved wooden bookend, some mice with an organ, a cloth doll and a toad, and they all sang some lovely folk music and told stories about embroidered owls. Probably explains a lot come to think about It.