My kids have always cuddled and "watched" but my youngest paid no attention to it until like 9 months. My oldest was 18 months before she actually wanted to pay attention to it.
Little bit. Half the time they say they wanna watch something & they play the whole time it’s on watching maybe 10 minutes worth of the show or movie lol. The baby just watches whatever is on when she’s about to crash if she’s in her swing or something & can see the tv. We don’t put it on directly for her though.
I recently just started putting Netflix once a week for my son but as a background noise only but it’s just learning videos like “word party” it teaches them colors, shapes, words, some animals and jobs, and not to fight and when you fight is not nice and to apologize to one another. Each episode is about 13 minutes long. He dances to the music which there’s tons of lol he rarely sits to stare at the tv and when he does is for about a minute or less and he’ll just continue to do what he was doing. My daughter stares sometimes but I try to keep her from it because I feel like she’s too small.
He doesn’t really sit and watch tv while we are home, but he loves watching videos of garbage trucks on his kindle. He also watches Daniel Tiger in the car.
My two year old does. But he watches learning videos and he picks up a lot from it. He's known his ABCs for about 6months now and can count to 15, knows his colors, shapes, animals, and a whole number of construction/emergency vehicles because of them. But I don't let him watch anything silly that doesn't teach him anything like SpongeBob or Peppa pig or anything like that.