Tuesday April 6th, 2010
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Today’s Activities:
Take a moment to just sit and watch cartoons with your children. Be sure not to have any distractions. Just sit with them and enjoy time together.
Note:
So many times we just let them watch whatever they want so it is good to occasionally watch it with them so you know what types of things they are watching. You might just discover where they have learned all their facts about dinosaurs or possibly some good or bad behaviors.
Evaluate:
When Max was very young (just over one) my husband introduced him to the Batman, Superman, and Justice League cartoons and he watched them ALL the time. I wasn’t thrilled about this because violence is violence even in cartoon form but I lost out on that argument. However as Max got a little older I started noticing changes in his behavior and I connected them to these cartoons (and xbox). At that point we made the rule that he could only watch these cartoons or play xbox on Fridays. Remarkably his attitudes completely changed and most Friday’s he doesn’t even think about watching cartoons because he would rather play. Now when he occasionally watches these show’s it has no effect on his behavior. I enjoyed watching some Justice League with him today and it brought back memories of him saying “Dabadooo” which was the way he said Superman and also naming all the characters in the credits when he was only 1 1/2. I do believe I have a future comic book geek on my hands. This experience also made me grateful that we realized that it was the constant cartoon watching that was affecting his attitude and we were able to easily fix the problem.
