When my two boys, both had their nap, it was a moderate amount of television, part of their routine rest-time. As a stay-at-home mom, I also enjoyed the quiet time to pause and prepare for dinner and return some phone calls. I've always been fond of airtime within the recommended guidelines take no more than two hours of screen and my children are still in time to play outside, outdoor activities, cooking and art projects rainy day and season with plenty ofToys>. I do not think that television is their life disrupted in any way.
My two boys, only 22 months away, arguing with each other. This reached the age of 4 and 6. Their struggles rarely in any real violence, would have caused the damage escalates. Their struggle has not been maintained only with a particular favorite toy. Everybody, including my husband told me it was all in accordance with sibling rivalry. As an only child, I had no frame of reference forthis and found it extremely difficult to bear. I read books, read the articles and tried many strategies, but the conflict would break out, despite my efforts.
Part of the problem lies in their different personalities, or so I thought. My son was very imaginative and create endless stories about his toys, where my youngest son was more physical and would instead move around. My youngest son did not have the attention span to focus onfun and left on the road during my greatest time to play. That would follow the oldest around and do exactly what he did and that could be really annoying.
I decided that I spent too much time playing together, if you ever need to maximize things always have been processed. My son is in full day kindergarten and had little time to play when we went to the playground, dinner eaten, bathed, homework and have done so to bedan age-appropriate, early. Something had to go and something to show that I watch while I made dinner and allows them to show he saw in the morning, when he moved quickly in itself.
I went cold turkey with the television on weekdays. They asked for a show every day and every day, I would tell them, for one reason or another. The time was extended to house and so was the fight. I told myself that things will get worse before she got better. There wasMoments that I wanted to turn on the TV and can only make dinner in peace, but I held my ground. I decided to do this experiment for a couple of weeks and there would be no improvement in their struggle, I return to my normal routine.
In just two short weeks, things are better. They have most of a small amount. All our lives better by leaps and bounds. My youngest son, who I thought lacked the capacity for self-enjoyment and creativity that was missinga whole village for his collection of Disney Seven Dwarfs bowls, textiles, paper, adhesive tape, dried beans in the private office and found a carton of eggs. He then played with her the next day for more than an hour while I cleaned the kitchen and lunch.
My son was doing wonderfully in school, both socially and scientifically, but is sometimes moody and upset at home for vulnerable always be easy. He was always ready to lose his temper with his brother. Within a week, reduced televisionThe increase in the time and quiet time to play with toys, he slowly found a way to draw things together with his brother. His mood is relaxed and raised his patience for his brother. Their argument has been reduced and I heard them talking about ways to work together to find compromises and solutions.
The television was taboo during the week and only as a break during the day on weekends, where, and then stored for no longer than an hour. After a while, 'have stopped asking. They knewthat if there is a weekend, there was no television. Within two months I have had two happy, creative children, who talk among themselves and can survive longer and longer periods.
What is the time to do things as a stay-at-home mom? Yes, it takes longer for me settled in a job before I can slip away. Yes, it takes more effort to think more projects or propose different toys or toy, if they find something to do with the problems. However,time is almost always when they are happy to play and I can the things I need to do the house. The sound of their laughter, and not the theme song of television show for children has greatly raised my spirit.
My kids were playing video games. They love to play with them, though in that case also a friend and ask if they can get one. However, these same children in our home where the TV can not get shot and there are video games growing high-techand do not want to leave. They discover their love for the train tables, play musical instruments and happy with the toys we have in our little basement and has not been asked to be switched on the television.
Perhaps what is now called moderate two-hour television and the TV Academy of Pediatrics limit is too much. Perhaps for days or weeks at a time set aside where it is deactivated. Yes, television can teach our children how their ABCand counting in the past, but is it really necessary? It is not soon enough for kindergarten? Is also educational, non-violent television taken away from those formative years, when the game is very much based on social development? A simple experiment in giving my children more time together to answer these questions for me. The TV went into my house and my children were children once again turned to his imagination, and the family I always wanted to come into focus.
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