After moving and sickness, I've declared a ban on daytime TV at our house. Well, technically we don't have TV, but the kids have grown very dependent on movies. I don't want "entertainment" to become their default mode.
Yesterday they helped me make a list of things to do instead. Here it is. What would you add?
Read
Sew
Board games
Play dough
Bead
Blocks
Paint
Draw
Dress up
Play outside
Cook
Tea party
Make music
Puzzles
6 comments:
Yeah! Our children have not watched TV (at home) since a year ago when they were 2 & 4! It is bliss. :) Now, we do watch TV in the evenings after bedtime, for now. Eventually, perhaps that will go.
We are enjoying it too!
We gave up TV entirely for Lent last year and the Lord spoke so clearly to us about so many things. Our kids loved doing it, I think partly because they knew it wasn't permanent. We still do Sesame Street on occasion or TV after bedtime.
How about having the kids act out Bible stories and make their own entertainment. My kids love to "put on shows" with our bay window as the stage and Mommy and Daddy as the audience.
read a book to a younger sister or brother
swing
play with the dog
clean something mom can't reach
fix your pajama drawer
play 'cowboy on the trail' sitting on a chair backwards........you will need a jumprope for the reins
look at seed catalogs
design and color a quilt on graph paper
watch mom do the laundry
get a nice dusting rag and do a shelf for mom
(I know some of these aren't fun, but it would keep a kid busy if they complained about NO tv!)
I don't like television either.....and videos can surely be abused. Even if they're good, they shouldn't be watched over and over again.
I would add something my kids always loved doing: the kids would tell stories on a tape recorder making their own sound effects. They spent hours doing this!! I think they may still have some copies. My daughter would sometimes write and illustrate stories too.
oh, yes and puppet shows.
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