My daughter and her love for TV serials
toppy posted on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 19:47
My daughter is ten and half years old and loves watching television. But its not the cartoons or other kids stuff that she watches but the daily soaps with their never ending family drama 
I really don't know how to make her stop this habit and I dont want to force her to do something but to make her understand. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
My advice on this is pretty difficult to implement. It is important that you model the behavior you want your daughter to learn. If you say that watching serials is a bad habit it won't help until you are doing the same thing.
Your daughter must have got into watching daily soaps only if she has seen some elder in the family do the same. You have to help her in finding out some new interests which distracts her from this habit. May be you can sit with her and watch some informative channels like Discovery etc. and discuss with her. Slowly she will get interested.
I agree with Shweta and ektasharma its the adults who are not setting proper example for the kids and then they complain. If you have to watch TV serials please do so when your child is not around. If you want your child to watch some knowledge channels you have to set a similar example.
I expected that I will be given all the blame for this but honestly speaking it's not me who watches these soaps. We are a joint family (I am not complaining) and I cannot control everyone. But I guess I will start watching some informative channels like Discovery. Which are the other channels that I can motivate my daughter to watch?
toppy I know its difficult to set a proper environment for kids in a joint family. But you can definitely ask your family members to not watch soaps when the kids are around. Or maybe have a separate TV in private room for this.
About channels which your daughter can watch are Discovery, National Geography, Animal Planet etc. Definitely some cartoon channels also should be included like Cartoon Network, Disney, Pogo etc.
toppy, I understand how you are feeling. Many a time we are not able to provide the best for our children, specially in joint families
In case there are other children at home besides yours, talking to their parents might help. You can probably explain them the bad effects of TV on children. All the Best!!
Thnx genie for ur understanding.. Thnx eva, I will try out the channels u mentioned.. Hope my daughter likes some of these..