A few years ago, an expert in the UK submitted a report to the Parliament, suggesting that the government enact laws to prohibit parents from letting children under the age of three watch TV. There is a line in the fantasy novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "Never, never, never let children get close to your TV. It's better not to buy or install the stupidest thing.". Martin Lawson, a British education expert, said: "If you can let children not watch TV before the age of 12, they will benefit all their lives." Before the television era, children learned by reading.
Today, information has been digested, re synthesized, packaged, and sent to our children's living room without error. They just need to sit there as captured audiences, and children chew all kinds of processed food and information. Relying on biased TV programs and entertainment activities, they are growing and shaping under the constant bombardment of the media. As adults in the workplace become increasingly busy, parents are increasingly ignoring their children, giving up their shaping and influence and letting the media 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 give their children to the virtual world on the screen. In addition to making parents feel easier, it is harmful without benefit.
Disadvantage 1: Watching TV replaces children's play, which is extremely important for children's growth.
The second disadvantage: watching TV hinders children's language development, because watching TV is one-way, and language learning needs to be realized through communication.
The third disadvantage: watching TV hinders the development of children's imagination, because children are passively indoctrinated.
Disadvantage 4: Watching TV limits children's feeling experience, and children with rich feeling experience can get better development.
Disadvantage 5: Children who watch too much TV are not focused, which makes it more difficult for children to learn in the future.
Disadvantage 6: Watching more TV leads to less activity, which reduces the children's physical coordination ability.
Disadvantage 7: Children who watch more TV are used to receiving information without thinking, and are lazy to think and explore.
Disadvantage 8: Children who watch more TV have poor interpersonal skills because they lack interactive experience between people.
Disadvantage 9: Watching TV will be addictive, and children who watch more TV will be affected by the shopping consumption in TV and form bad consumption habits.
Scientists use experiments to illustrate the difference between watching TV and reading.
The scientists divided the children into two groups, one is to listen to the teacher tell the story of Snow White, the other is to watch the cartoon of Snow White. Then ask the two groups of children to draw Snow White.
The children who listened to the story painted Snow White differently, and the children would give Snow White different images, costumes and expressions according to their imagination;
The children who saw the cartoons painted Snow White exactly the same, because they saw the same thing.
A few days later, the scientists asked the two groups of children to draw Snow White again. The children who listened to the story drew a different picture this time, because they had a new imagination. The children who saw cartoons drew the same picture last time.
What does this example tell us?
Cartoons stereotype the characters in the story, which constrains children's thinking. Children watching cartoons is actually a form of listening to stories. If we want to protect children's imagination, we should tell them stories instead of letting cartoons tell children stories.
Many parents believe that watching TV can help children learn knowledge. Good TV programs can replace reading. First, analyze why children like watching TV. TV is a combination of sound, light and shadow, with constantly changing pictures, rich and bright colors, beautiful and funny sounds... These stimuli must be more attractive to children than books. However, just because TV provides information in an all-round way, there is little room for imagination, so children's watching TV is a passive indoctrination, lacking their own thinking and imagination.
Compared with watching TV and reading books, it is undoubtedly boring for children. Children who have the opportunity to watch cartoons will give priority to this effortless form. In the long run, the weight of reading will become less and less in their minds, 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 it will be twice the effort, or even futile. And children's obsession with television was formed in the first few years of their growth.
Come on, let's learn together to make children's life colorful.
Some parents said that we should accompany our children to watch TV in a limited amount every day and choose excellent TV programs and cartoons. This statement is really difficult to achieve.
First of all, behind TV and cartoons are commercial interests. Even the best TV programs have to be interspersed with many advertisements, and the content quality of advertisements cannot be controlled. Research in the United States found that children can see 40000 advertisements a year, which contain a lot of propaganda about high calorie and greasy junk food, and constantly entice children to buy. And even if we watch the program together, unless parents watch it first, it is difficult to ensure that the content on the screen in the next minute is suitable for their children.
Therefore, if parents have the conditions to accompany their children to watch TV, it is better to spend time and energy on helping children to focus their extracurricular life on more colorful and meaningful things. If you want to expand your child's knowledge and vision by watching TV, it is better to read books and newspapers with him, go to museums and exhibitions, and observe and explore the nature together. Instead of letting children learn about the ecological environment of the Amazon River basin from TV, let them raise a small animal and experience the food and habits of animals. Instead of letting children experience the sun, moon and stars from TV, let them feel the beautiful world around them in nature.
How to fight effectively
1. Restrict the use of TV. When you really want to watch TV, carefully study and select the program, then watch it with your children, and then analyze and discuss the content after watching it.
2. For young children, make sure they understand that what they are watching is not true, and do not be confused by the reality.
3. Watch and discuss a TV advertisement together. Explain how the advertisement was designed and how it made you want to spend money on the things it promoted; You can also analyze who makes the most profit when a toy or commodity is sold. When your child chooses or watches TV programs (as he wants to choose a book to read or a product to buy), help him develop insight. Tell him to be a smart consumer with judgment.
4. No longer regard watching TV as a reward or punishment. That will only increase its value in your child's mind.
5. It is not allowed to watch TV during cooking or homework, unless the network or computer is necessary for your child to complete his/her homework.
6. Do all kinds of housework with your children instead of using the TV as a baby sitter when you are doing your own work at home.
7. Read, read to each other and read to each other.
8. Spend time with people and play real games. A deck of cards is not only extremely convenient to carry around, but also can provide a variety of playing methods and fun to spend time without limit. Enjoy outdoor activities. You can also chat, debate, and participate in discussions. Study a topic together. Learn interesting things together, whether it's new musical instruments, new crafts, dancing, or sports. Learn to make connections and resolve conflicts.
9. Give the children a quiet time every day, and do nothing in a short time to train your children to deal with boredom, silence and other problems.
[This article is from the WeChat official account "parenting class"]
