Time to develop scissor skills , baby.
Here, let me show you.
You hold your scissors like this and cut…cut…cut.
Don’t worry, they are safety scissors.
Now, you try.
Oh! you look bored.
Maybe we ought to try later.
Let’s try again tomorrow.
What are you doing ?
Why are you so silent?
It’s OK if you don’t understand anything.
You will catch up.
Wait a minute, something’s wrong with this silence.
God! You’re trying to snip my pants.
I see you picked up something.
CLASS DISMISSED!
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We didn’t let our kid watch T.V until he was a year old.
After that it became really hard to resist the temptation.
Who wouldn’t want a little free time?
I honestly thought some of these programs might even help him.
After all, he learned to identify the letters and numbers
and even to say “Please” and “Thank you”.
I silenced my guilty conscience by saying that I am doing something great,
something crucial for his ‘development’.
After all, these programs aim to foster his imagination and nurture his social and
emotional development.
I feel like a wise parent making an educated decision.
But am I right? It’s true that he get to see lots of colorful things. But how far do they stimulate imagination and creativity? I think if there is some part of the brain for ‘rot learning’, that is really working. As far as creativity goes, I can see more of that happening when he arranges his cars in the shape of a flower or constructs an “Up and Down Jungle” with his blocks or pretends that I am the baby and he is the parent. He even invents names like “Bouncingo”.
Talking about social development, I don’t think the definition includes sitting glued to the T.V because Dora and Diego are far more interesting than your friends .
I know I can’t ban the T.V completely. But I have to rethink my ‘educated choices’.
In our eagerness to provide our children with everything we CAN; everything we never had, are we inadvertently denying them something we had plenty of – time to do absolutely nothing, to get bored and try out new things, to be alone for a while and enjoy the beauty of silence, to be free from overstimulus and excitement ?
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
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