What do you do during your free time or during the day? Every family has activities that they engage in and especially young children. It is important to ensure that a family has wholesome forms of entertainment that foster growth, development and encourage bonding. Nothing is worse than having nothing to do. Usually this leads to mischief.
Any parent will testify on the need for healthy and wholesome entertainment. A mother needs to be able to have time to herself and to also be able to do a few things know that her children are occupied with something positive.
Passive or non-involving entertainment requires nothing from your child other than their presence. They may not even be paying too much attention. When you are watching TV, you move from channel to channel, doze off at some point and so on. Children love cartoons such as Dexter, The Simpsons and Ben 10 Games. If not controlled, the can end up slumped in front of the TV for many hours and this is not the best thing for them.
When it comes to active entertainment, it requires the children to get involved in some way. It may be watching a video with activities or going outside to ride a bike or play football. This form of entertainment is very good because it causes your child to use all his five senses, get up on his feet and get active. It also requires the involvement of parents or a guardian, making is great for the family to spend time together. This need for parents to get involved is one reason why active entertainment is less common. Parents tend to be too busy to find the time.
There are positives and negatives to the two forms of entertainment. None is necessarily better than the other. The key thing is balance and creativity. You may not have the time to get into an active game with your children but you do not want them to become TV addicts on the other hand.
You may be a busy parent and that can be understand buy your family is also important so you must make time for them. It may take some creativity to work out your schedule but if you want this to happen then you will make it work somehow. You will need to take advantage of the resources you have. Your children will learn a lot and be very sharp.
Any activity that involves the mind or gets the body moving is amazingly refreshing and beneficial. This ensures proper growth and development and of course bonding and team work also comes into the picture.
Teach your children from an early age to enjoy different forms of activity. This way, they will not be attracted to only a few activities. Sitting down and doing nothing should be foreign to them. Let them love things that stimulate them.
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