For children, reading books is more attractive than watching TV in most cases. In fact, watching TV is a process for children to passively receive information, and there is no active digestion and absorption. Reading is different. Reading is controlled by children themselves and is a process of actively acquiring information. However, the vivid and rich pictures on TV can often catch children's attention better, making them immersed in it and unable to extricate themselves.
After 11-year-old Qiqi came home from school, she finished her homework first. After finishing her homework, she hesitated, wondering whether to watch TV or read a book. Her mother once told her not to watch TV for a long time and to read more books, but she couldn't resist the temptation of TV. Finally, she came up with a "best of both worlds" method - reading while watching TV. So, Qiqi held the book in her arms and watched TV. In the end, not only did she fail to watch the TV, but she also failed to read the book.
Qiqi’s experience may have happened to many children. They are smart enough to think that they can watch TV and read at the same time, but what they don’t expect is that the temptation of TV is often beyond their imagination. Moreover, the result of multitasking is often that neither TV nor books can be read well.
Some experts once suggested that children should not be allowed to watch TV before they are exposed to reading. Of course, this is somewhat unrealistic because many of our parents cannot do it. Therefore, we need to help our children find a balance between watching TV and reading books, so that they are not obsessed with TV but can also develop good reading habits. So how do we guide children to find this balance between the two?
▲ Don’t let TV become your child’s “nanny”
Some parents are very busy, and in order to take care of their own affairs, they push their children to TV to “take care of” them. In fact, this approach is very bad. Because there are not only many contents on TV that are not suitable for children to watch, but watching TV for a long time is also not good for children's vision development. Therefore, we must not let TV become the "nanny" of our children. Instead, we must try to spend as much time with him as possible, and we must pay attention to controlling the time he spends watching TV.
▲ Create a good reading environment for children
A school once conducted a survey on parents and children, and found that 7.4% of parents do not have the habit of reading books or newspapers. ; 59.3% of parents have no time to participate in part-time further study or self-study; 9.1% of families do not have a book collection; 9.7% of families have less than 10 books.
Seeing these data, we can’t help but sigh, living in such a family atmosphere, how can we cultivate children’s reading habits?
The Austrian philosopher Popper has lived in a sea of ??books since he was a child. In his home, except for the dining room, almost everything else is filled with books. A very large library is filled with tens of thousands of books by famous writers such as Freud, Plato, Bacon, Spinoza, Kant and Schopenhauer.
Seeing Popper's family, we can easily draw conclusions and understand why he became a famous philosopher. This is all influenced by the family environment. Therefore, in order to shift children's attention from watching TV to reading, our families must have a rich collection of books, books suitable for children, and it is best to have good books with rich pictures and texts that children like to read and read. At the same time, the book collection at home needs to be constantly updated to meet the needs of children's growth. In addition, we must also develop the habit of reading. Under our influence, children will subconsciously develop the habit of loving reading.
▲ Let the children coordinate the time of reading and watching TV
A mother stipulates that her son can only watch TV for 30 minutes a day, and he must turn off the TV after watching two episodes of cartoons. . On weekends, he cannot watch TV for more than 2 hours throughout the day, and he must turn off the TV every 30 minutes. After watching TV, the mother will read with her son for half an hour, and then let him read by himself for an hour. Now my son's habit has been developed. Sometimes he doesn't need his mother's company or supervision. He will consciously read a book after watching TV.
This mother’s method of limiting the time her son watches TV every day and reading with her son not only effectively prevents the child from becoming obsessed with TV, but also helps him develop the habit of reading. This method is worth learning from. It should be noted that after children watch TV or read for a period of time, they must take a break and relieve eye fatigue by looking far away or doing eye exercises.