6 ways to solve your child's bad habit of watching TV every day

1. Don’t place a TV in your baby’s room

Most modern families have more than one TV to meet the viewing needs of different family members, but it is best not to put a TV in the child’s room, otherwise the child may reduce the opportunities to communicate with other family members because of the TV. This will make the child more alienated from other people in the family and also affect the child’s sleep time and study time. What’s worse, when parents are not around, children may watch programs they shouldn’t watch or unhealthy programs, which may affect their physical and mental health.

2. Set rules for watching TV with your children in advance

Some parents quarrel with their children and damage the parent-child relationship by trying to prevent them from watching TV. However, this method cannot pull children away from the TV. The correct approach is to set rules for watching TV with your children in advance, such as what programs to watch and how long to watch. This can reduce the chances of children being naughty and arguing, and allow children to abide by the rules you set. For example, on weekends, you can start discussing with your children which programs to watch next week, how long they should watch TV every day or how many times they should watch TV next week, and agree that they should not watch TV before finishing their homework, not watch TV during meal times, and not watch TV beyond bedtime, etc. All these should be agreed upon in advance, so that when the children forget the time, the parents' reminders will be more convincing.

3. Hide the TV and remote control

Television has taken up the time people have for communicating with each other, and the sound of television fills every corner of the home. In order to reduce the temptation brought by television, the American "Shutdown Coalition" has been advocating pushing the television to the most secret corner, asking family members to hide the remote control and even the television together to cut off the sound of the television. You may not be used to life without TV at first, so you can use the radio to listen to interesting radio programs and soft music. You can use them as background music for your family life, which can create a cheerful atmosphere and soothe your mind and cultivate your character.

4. Adults should set an example by rejecting television

Some parents prevent their children from watching TV, but they themselves keep revolving around the TV, which makes the children very dissatisfied. When the parents try to stop them again next time, the children will resist even more. Therefore, as parents, we must set an example, turn off the TV, spend time with our children, organize more family activities, exercise, tell stories, play games with our children, etc. By increasing the time spent interacting with our children, the parent-child relationship will also be warmer.

5. You can replace bad TV shows with good DVDs

In the era of mass entertainment, more and more TV programs no longer provide beneficial content for children, and are even not suitable for children to watch. At this time, parents can spend money to buy or rent good DVDs, which are teaching tools that are beneficial to children's growth and learning, and learn with their children.

6. Don’t use TV as your child’s babysitter

Parents may be busy with work and housework to maintain the family finances and have no time to take care of their children, so they will often turn on the TV for their children to keep it company. This approach is the most wrong. In fact, you can ask your children to help with some housework within their ability to exercise their hands-on ability. This will also allow you to get closer to your children and help them complete housework better.