How can I entertain my daughter - no TV.
zohra posted on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 12:04
My 3 yrs old daughter is getting used to TV. Many a times when I get busy with households and I leave her to play on her own she sticks with the TV. I am trying to think of some activities for her so that she get out of the habit of watching TV.
I am sure every mom here has some or the other activity to keep her kid busy. It would be great if you can share some of these activities here.
I keep my 4 yrs old daughter engaged with making roti. I give her a little dough and ask her to prepare roti. She get busy with it while I do my households.
At least girls love to play these kinds of thing so one can keep them busy with this.
My son loves sticking things here and there. When I know that I will be busy for sometime I take a big sheet of chart paper and give various things to my son like paper cutouts some waste things like used matchstick etc. etc. And give some safe scissors and gum to my son. All these keeps him busy and he prefers this to TV.
My sons love puzzles so they always prefer solving puzzles. When they get a puzzle in front of them they will not even turn towards TV.
I do let my kids watch some good programmes on TV. And many times when I do not want them to watch TV I involve them in whatever I am doing. This way they get busy and they do learn to help. Or sometimes they get busy in playing cricket or ball.
Now as my child is old its difficult to totally retrict TV now. But when he was young he hardly watched any TV. He loved to listen to music and dance with it. So, I turned on some rhymes /music for him and he used to get busy listening and dancing.
In fact he loved playing his toy musical instruments.
Because of this interest today he is learning to play keyboard.
My son is not even 2 yrs old so I do not let him watch TV at all. I feel that at this age TV is not good for it. When I am busy I let him play with some blocks and is musical toys which he loves.