A few years ago, experts in the United Kingdom submitted a report to Parliament recommending that the government enact laws prohibiting parents from watching television for children under the age of 3. The fantasy novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" has a line: "Don't let the child, don't let the child, close to your TV, it is best not to buy, install, this is the most stupid thing." 」
Martin Lawson, a British education expert, said: "If you can make your child not watch TV until the age of 12, they will benefit for the rest of their lives. ”
Before the advent of the television era, children learned by reading
Today, information has been digested, re-synthesized, packaged, and delivered to our children's living rooms without error, where they simply sit as captive audiences, chewing on all sorts of processed foods and information.
Relying on biased TELEVISION shows and entertainment, they are growing up under the constant bombardment of the media. As adults in the workplace become busier, parents are increasingly ignoring their children, abandoning the shaping and influence of them and allowing the media to influence them.
Because - 0-3 years old is the most critical period of life growth, children need to develop and build themselves in the real world, and handing the child over to the virtual world on the screen is harmful and unhelpful in addition to making it easier for parents.
Disadvantage one: watching TV replaces children's play, and play is extremely important for children's growth.
Disadvantage two: watching TV hinders the child's language development, because watching TV is one-way, and language learning needs to be achieved through communication.
Disadvantage three: Watching TV hinders the development of children's imagination, because children are in passive indoctrination.
Disadvantage four: watching TV limits the child's sensory experience, and children who feel rich in experience can get better development.
Disadvantage five: Children who watch more TV are not attentive, making it more difficult for children to learn in the future.
Disadvantage six: Watching more TV leads to reduced activity, which reduces the child's physical coordination ability.
Disadvantage seven: Children who watch a lot of TV are accustomed to accepting information without thinking, and are lazy to think and explore.
Disadvantage eight: Children who watch more TV have poor interpersonal skills because of the lack of interaction between people.
Disadvantage nine: watching TV will be addictive, children who watch more TV will be affected by shopping consumption on TV, and develop bad consumption habits.
The difference between watching TV and reading, with experiments to illustrate the problem
Scientists divided the children into two groups, one to listen to the teacher tell the story of Snow White, and the other to watch Snow White cartoons. After that, let the two groups of children draw the Snow White in their minds.
Children who listen to the story draw Snow White differently, and children will give Snow White different images, outfits and expressions according to their imagination;
The children who watched the cartoons all drew Snow White exactly the same, because they all saw the same.
A few days later, the scientists asked the two groups of children to draw Snow White again, and the children who listened to the story drew differently this time and the last time, because they had a new imagination, and the children who had seen cartoons drew the same as the last time.
Through this experiment, we know that the cartoon models the characters in the story, which restricts the child's thinking. If we want to protect our children's imagination, tell stories to them, rather than let cartoons tell stories to children.
Many parents believe that watching TV allows children to learn knowledge, and good TV programs can replace reading. So first analyze why children like to watch TV. Television integrates sound, light and shadow, with changing pictures, rich and vivid colors, beautiful and playful sounds... These stimuli must be more attractive to children than books.
However, precisely because television provides information in all directions, there is very little room for people to imagine, so children watch TV is a passive indoctrination, lacking their own thinking and imagination.
For children, it is undoubtedly boring compared to watching TV and reading books. Children who have the opportunity to watch cartoons will give preference to this effortless form, and in the long run, the weight of reading will become less and less in their hearts, and it will be difficult to develop the habit of loving reading, which is very detrimental to future learning and development.
Many education experts believe that:
Reading interest and reading habits need to lay a foundation in early education, otherwise they will do half the work, or even work hard. And children's fascination with television is also formed in the first few years of growing up.
How to avoid tv from harming children
Perhaps when we see the results of the above research, we will see television as a tiger and keep our children away from tv from now on.
But in fact, there is nothing wrong with watching TV itself, the fault lies in allowing children to watch TV without restraint and watch TV programs without choice.
So, what should we do to make tv play its best and avoid harm to children?
Limit the use of viewing time. When you really want to watch TV, carefully study and select the program, and then accompany your children to watch it, and then analyze and discuss its contents. Control the amount of time you spend watching TV each day and plan a single time. About 45 minutes a day. For school-age children, one hour a day is enough. One rule must be adhered to: turn off the television at the allotted time, without further delay.
Watch high-quality program content. Many children's videos are also full of violence and evil, and those poisonous videos and poison games are too much to prevent. We must learn to be the eyes of children, and the TV shows they watch must go through our screening.
According to a special study by the China Youth Research Center, there are two types of programs that are most suitable for children and teenagers:
One is children's literature works, such as children's literature masterpieces, fairy tale adaptations of feature films, cartoons; the other is intellectual works, such as nature exploration, popular science topics, science fiction themes, etc.
We must guide children to watch these TV programs with aesthetic and educational value, and try to avoid those programs with negative effects from entering the child's field of vision.
Watch and discuss a TV commercial together. Explain how the ad was designed, how it made you want to spend money on what it was selling, and analyze who profited the most from a toy or item when it was sold.
No longer watching TV as a reward or punishment. That only adds to its value in your child's mind.
Watching TV while cooking or doing homework is not allowed unless the internet or computer is necessary for your child to complete their homework.
Do all kinds of housework with your children, rather than using the TV as a babysitter while you're doing your own work at home.
Be a good role model for your child. Many children fall in love with TV, computer and mobile phone, often influenced by their parents. We watch TV, play with mobile phones, and children learn from us: Mom and Dad watch, then I want to watch. The result is that adults and children watch together.
Adults can control, but children can not control, so parents should be their children's role models, less TV and other electronic products.
In fact, if parents have the conditions to accompany their children to watch TV, it is better to spend time and energy to help children focus their extracurricular life on more colorful and meaningful things.
If you want to expand your child's knowledge and horizons by watching TV, it is better to read books and newspapers with him, go to the museum exhibition hall together, and observe and explore the natural world together.
Instead of letting the child understand the ecological environment of the Amazon River Basin from tv, it is better to let him raise a small animal by himself and experience how the animal's diet and habits are.
Instead of letting his child experience the sun, moon and starry sky from the TV, it is better to let him feel the beautiful world around him in nature.
For us, we will never want to accompany our children to grow up with the cold electronic products of televisions, computers, and mobile phones.
May we follow Him with love, accompany Him, and let children grow up healthily in our love.
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