{"id":8843,"date":"2023-03-29T06:13:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T06:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2023-03-29T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T06:13:58","slug":"tv-or-no-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/2023\/03\/tv-or-no-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"TV or No TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">So much talk has gone on over the years about the effects of the Television on children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">When John Logie Baird invented the TV in 1925, I am sure he could never have imagined the tremendous impact it would have on our world, children and adults alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">While some believe that there should be zero TV time, and others believe in controlled TV time, the two sides agree that TV can have either a positive or negative effect on children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Children can learn a lot by watching TV. It can help to expand their views about life, other cultures, go where they have never been, and learn a thing or two about their academics\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The magnitude of the negative impact of TV to the average child is dependent upon some factors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">TV with or without adult supervision<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The amount of time spent watching<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The kind of programs they are allowed to watch [and believe me, not all cartoon programs are for kids!]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">As a mom, I noticed that TV causes a whole lot of distractions for my kids, so I limit TV time to weekends only or during holidays. My kids have come to terms with it, the only thing they are allowed to see on TV during the week will be documentaries, news [not all news are child-friendly too, so this is with supervision], or sports, and also with supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">With television being such an integral part of our daily lives, it\u2019s almost impossible to completely banish it from our child&#8217;s life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">However as parents we could:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Choose the programs our children will watch, and stick to the schedule<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Encourage children to cultivate the reading habit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Help them develop other hobbies such as sports, painting, craft work, music&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Finally, set a good example by limiting your own television viewing.&nbsp;If as a Mom, we spend every waking minute tuned to African Magic, our kids may not take our TV boundaries very seriously.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">So, TV or No TV? It\u2019s really your prerogative as a Mom, do the right thing for your child.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>\u201cTelevision has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> ~Author Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Oluseye Ashiru<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><br style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/black_child_watching_television-16x9.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/black_child_watching_television-16x9.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"black_child_watching_television-16x9\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When John Logie Baird invented the TV in 1925, I am sure he could never have imagined the tremendous impact it would have on our world, children and adults alike.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[355,194,104,91,21,359,368,369],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting","tag-discipline","tag-good-mom","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-parenting-2","tag-striving","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}