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Making Television Useful for Your Child

Most, if not all, parents today are worried about their children’s fondness for watching TV. While parents are relieved, on the one, hand that their restless toddlers are calmed down by the magical TV screen, they are also concerned about the effects of television on the healthy development of their kids. They think that watching TV badly affects the education and tastes of their children. However, developmental psychologists like Dorothy Einon tell us that TV can be used as a useful parenting tool for the proper upbringing of kids. Here are some ways of making TV a useful means of your child’s learning and better growth.

• Encourage your child to watch cartoons, children’s shows and quiz programs, documentaries on nature and animals, and fairytales or other stories like classics that are appropriate for their age.

• Try to get your children watch TV in a group as doing so make kids more sociable and open to discuss things with other children of their age.

• Do not let your child watch graphic content or news of terrorist attacks, wars, and unpleasant violence. Also, keep them from watching scary death scenes, emotionally charged programs, and sexually explicit content. Provide explanation if they happen to watch such a program.

• Watching excess TV can be harmful because it can hamper language and social skills of the child. An hour daily is enough for kids up to four years old. To make sure your child follows the rule, just plug the TV set off the mains and take the remote control in your possession.

• Discourage eating in front of TV.

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