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It's also important to ensure the limited screen time is _quality_, especially for young children:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/ba...

The take-away is you want them to watch "slow" TV that is not constantly triggering their attention centers and creating addiction.

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I wonder how much of that is to help the child develop a sense for causality. Quick cuts makes it really hard to see what is really happening, if you have already developed your intuition you can piece that together, but it wouldn't surprise me if children develops a really bad understanding of the world if that is most of what they experience.

Video games is a totally different here, since in order to play you have to develop some understanding while with passive video you don't.

Even past quick cuts, you have literal narrative shift. MTV, America's funniest home videos, TikTok are little bite site stories in rapid succession.

It would be great if someone kept a list of “slow” TV for parents to refer to. Have you come across anything like this?

Not a maintained list, but I remember finding these recommended from a subreddit for slow children’s programming:

    Trash Truck
    Puffin Rock
    Snowy Day
    Tumbler Leaf
    David the Gnome
    Elinor Wonders Why
    Rosie’s Rules
    Bear in the Big Blue House
    Curious George