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Post by Mandan914 on Mar 12, 2012 0:53:27 GMT -6
OK up untill like a month ago my DS who is now 28 months old didnt care much for tv and if it was on he might watch it but didnt ask to watch it really ..
Recently he is obsessed with Dora, Super Why, Thomas, and Chuggington.. He will ask to watch them over and over until I have to take him out of the house in order for him to stop asking.. or he has a temper and will sit in time out.
I want to let him watch a limited amount per day but after every episode he asks and asks.. I dont know what to do at this age for him to understand a system for getting to watch tv..
If anyone has any tips or suggestions, please let me know!!
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Post by sharon on Mar 12, 2012 5:28:28 GMT -6
We've always had the rule of tv only on weekends. At about your son's age we started with one hour on the weekend. We picked two 1/2 hour shows and they were the only things he watched. If you make it the routine that he watches X amount at X time, then once the routine is established it will be easier. As with anything with a todder, changing the routine can be hard at first, but it will get easier if you stick with it.
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Post by dara1012 on Mar 12, 2012 7:15:11 GMT -6
DS has a set of shows on Sat morning on PBS that he would watch all of them if we let him. We make sure to turn off the TV after 2 shows before he sees the next one advertised.
If you say one TV show a day you will have to deal with tantrums for a while, but he will get it. DS went through a phase like that. We just had to really stick with it and not give in even when he cried and threw a temper tantrum.
An idea for when he is older.....When I was younger my mom gave us each a set of poker chips for the week in the summer. Each chip was worth 30 min we got $1 towards books for each chip left at the end of the week. We were all in elementary school and it worked great so mom wasn't bugged by us asking to watch TV all the time.
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Post by deannemdm on Mar 12, 2012 12:12:16 GMT -6
DD is 10, but I make her read to earn screen time-- she reads for so many minutes then she can watch tv, computer, etc for X number of minutes. DD has to work on her reading comprehensive and fluidity/fluency so works pretty good. With DS, he generally will stop watching if he can play computer games on my laptop--usu. from the stations he watches (Disney Jr, Nick JR, pbs sprout, and pbs kids)-- or if we can get outside . It is really hard to limit since we naturally have the tv on in the background most of the time-- so I am working on that for me so I can do it for the kids
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Post by dara1012 on Mar 12, 2012 12:21:00 GMT -6
Deanne's comment made me think of something else to add.....we never have the TV on for background noise. We only have one TV in our house and our house is a split level so it is downstairs. Almost all of DS's toys are upstairs so we only watch TV when it is intentional. Even when I was on maternity leave we spent 90% of our time upstairs. I grew up in a house where TV was not on much and we spent a lot of time as a family playing games, reading books, etc. When DH and I married he couldn't believe that I would only allow one TV in the house, but it works great for us. DH likes to play video games so his system is hooked up to a computer monitor and that is in his office so that DS cannot see violent video games. One TV wouldn't work if we didn't have that computer monitor for video games as I like to relax in front of the TV sometimes after DS goes to bed.
Maybe switching where you have TV or toys might help to keep TV viewing limited?
We need to work on having our laptops out less in our house though....screen time on a computer is the same as on the TV IMO so we need to cut back on that bad habit for all of us.
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Post by Mandan914 on Mar 14, 2012 23:30:06 GMT -6
Thanks Ladies, we only have netflix so when the episode it over it goes back to the main page listings of all the shows..
We never have the tv on unless were watching something on netflix..
Its mainly me struggling with saying no more tv and redirecting him to something else..
The Tv is in our living room that is open to the kitchen, then he has a playroom that is right off of that, that he cant watch tv from when in there.. He has a ton of things to play with in there, but its hard I guess to play by yourself for so long, and I will read to him but that gets old too..
Thanks for all the advice!!
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