Last weekend, the company temporarily announced overtime, and her colleague Cai Jie had to take her 6-year-old son Tong Tong to the office together. Sister Cai arranged her son to do homework at her workstation, and she was busy with everyone.
But the little guy couldn't sit still and shouted at Sister Cai: "Mom, I don't want to write homework, I want to watch TV!" "There's no TV here!" Tell you a few times, don't watch TV, obediently write homework! Sister Cai couldn't help but get mad.
Hindered by Sister Cai's roar, Tong Tong did not dare to make another mistake and buried his head to continue writing homework. But I can still see him sitting in a chair, restlessly twisting his body, which shows that the homework is really reluctant to write.
Afterwards, I asked Sister Cai why the "TV addiction" of the child was not small at a young age. Sister Cai shook her head helplessly: "This is all blamed on his grandmother, Tong Tong often let him watch TV when he was a child." It is also said that watching TV children do not cry and do not make trouble is very obedient, and after a long time, the child will become addicted. ”
"Alas!" Sister Cai sighed and continued: "The sequelae of watching TV are now all running out, the child's concentration is not good, everything is half-hearted, and the heart wants to watch TV." ”
Does a child really have such a big "lethality" when watching TV?
As a mother, I was afraid that my child would follow in the footsteps, so I quickly checked the relevant information after returning home. I really don't know if I check it, and I am shocked when I check it.
Foreign studies have found that children watch TV for too long before the age of 12, which is extremely harmful to their healthy growth. In addition to the damage caused by electronic screens to children's vision, watching TV also has an impact on children's intellectual development.
Relevant researchers pointed out that the TV picture strobe speed is very fast, and the child's brain has no time to "process and understand" the TV picture, and the brain is completely in a passive state of acceptance. The longer you watch TV, the more your child's brain will be in a state of fatigue.
In the operation of the brain, the brain waves released will also be changed because of the state of watching TV - the β waves responsible for thinking will weaken, and the α brain waves responsible for hypnosis will increase.
Therefore, for children, watching TV is purely just the eyes "addicted", trying to be "lively", not fully digesting the content at all, this passive input method, so that children lose the awareness of active thinking. Over time, the child will lack patience and concentration will be affected.
After figuring out the dangers of watching TV to children, I immediately began to take action. "One size fits all" not allowing children to watch TV is no longer feasible.
There are too many electronic products in this year, so it is not realistic for children to live in complete "isolation" and do not touch electronic products. But at least as a parent, I have to do everything I can to minimize the harm.
How to reduce the negative impact of watching TV, three important points to keep in mind:
1. Agree with your child on a reasonable amount of time to watch TV
I first told my child about three chapters, no matter how interested in TV content, I can't watch TV for more than 1 hour a day. And I made requirements for the child's sitting position when watching TV and the distance kept from the TV.
The process of watching TV does not allow children to remain motionless and "look to the end". For every 20 minutes of watching, give your eyes time to rest, and ask your child to get up and walk around a bit or look into the distance.
At the beginning, children refused to accept it, always liked to pick a position that they thought was comfortable to watch TV, for their favorite cartoons, and they refused to give up until they watched it. But at this time, I took out the parents' fierce attitude, resolutely refused to compromise, and told the children that there were only two choices, either to abide by our agreement to watch TV or not to watch TV. In the end, the child is obedient.
2. Filter some TV programs for your child
Now that it is the electronic information age, it is undeniable that many television programs still have a certain degree of pertinence. If children want to learn from TV shows, then TV show selection is necessary.
TV programs that are too informative and do not meet the age group of children will only put them in a passive acceptance and damage the healthy development of the brain. Parents can choose simple, educational TV shows for their children to watch.
3. Learn to help children transfer interests
The above two main points are only "curing the symptoms", not "curing the root causes". To get rid of your child's dependence on TV shows, you need to help your child shift their interests, expand their radius of life, and tap into more of their hobbies. For example, make an agreement with your child to read two books a week, make a plan for a wild outing with your child, take your child to climb mountains, pick, and do handicrafts with your child.
Many children who watch TV are because their parents don't have time to spend with them, so that they rely on TV programs to pass the time. The more bored and dependent, the more fascinated you eventually become, forming a vicious circle. Once children find that there are newer and more fun things, the attraction of television to them is naturally less.
Write at the end:
Although television is not a flood beast, parents should not think that their children are incurable because their children watch TV for a while, and it is not a bad thing for their children to receive some fresh information from television. But everything can not escape the law of "things must be reversed", watching TV is the same, children are too addicted, there will be a negative impact.
I hope that the three methods shared in this article can help more children get out of their dependence on television. Do your kids all watch TV? What good advice do parents have to stop their children from watching TV?