Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 9/20/2007 12:25:00 PM Author: Linda Arocho (HappyHands12302@aol.com) Subject: TV Time I think I'm the only parent on the block that has to take a book out of my oldest's hands and force him to go outside and play. He's 13. I equate video games and computer also as TV time. I completely agree with the phrase my dad use to use "the idiot box". And teens LOVE the computer and videos, don't they? So he is given an hour a day MAX for videos AND TV. If he's watched a show, it takes away from how much time he can spend on the video game. Until I realized he could earn some extra time. Instead of earning money for chores around the house, he earns extra playing or watching time. When he volunteers in the community for things, he can also earn extra play time. What's go great (and the thing he hasn't figured out yet) is that he's so busy with chores, homework and volunteering, that he doesn't get to use much of the time that he's earned. But since he isn't complaining, I'm not pointing it out to him! For my daycare children, they don't get TV. It is a rare moment when they do get to. I run a home-based daycare and if I'm sick as a dog and for some reason didn't close, I might turn on a movie for them - or during the summer when it's nap time, I'd let the older ones who don't nap watch a video - but then again, they couldn't get the video unless they first did their "sustained silent reading". Of course, with the nearly acre of land outside, I don't have much call to have the TV on inside! Name: Email: Subject

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