Entertainment and How it Impacts your Kids
From Ibstudy
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.
Children can be very involving and a mother would never get some few moments for herself without using some form of entertainment to keep a child engaged. If you have taken care of children as well as run a home, you know how important that is. There is usually a lot to be done and getting help is a rather expensive affair that you may want to avoid.
Passive entertainment does not call for any involvement at all. You mainly sit back, do nothing and enjoy. TV has been the leading form of passive entertainment with kids enjoying cartoons like Ben 10, Dora and so on. Many parents have knowingly and unknowingly misused this form of entertainment by letting their kid watch TV mindlessly for hours and without any form of supervision. While this walks to keep children busy, it is very dangerous.
Passive entertainment is the kind where child is not directly involved in the entertainment activity. Here is where TV comes in. Unfortunately many parents allow their children to only experience passive entertainment especially watching TV and movies. It is a common thing for children to spend all their time mindlessly watching TV. Cartoons like Ben 10, Hannah Montana and many others have become a strong addiction in children.
Active entertainment however, requires the involvement of a child. This is where playing a game outside and taking part is different activities come in. Many children enjoy riding their bikes, creating stuff and even playing home where they get to cook something. The thing with active entertainment is that it requires involvement of both the child and the parent or a supervisor. No wonder it is less common. With busy schedules, deadlines and jobs, parents will find it easier to switch on the TV instead of going to the part to ride bikes with their children.
The two forms of entertainment have pros and cons. The simple remedy for a family is to make time for both kinds of entertainment, taking advantage of the benefits each has to offer and avoiding the negatives. Balance is the name of the game here.
To find balance, parents must learn how to make time for different activities. They must be able to provide their children with an environment that gives them both kinds of entertainment. Creativity comes with when parents have to think out of the box and make the most of their time and space. Who’s to say that you cannot play a game, paint a picture or something active right in your house?
Get your family to be physically active has so many benefits. This is the best form of exercise that leads to a good body weight and hormonal balance. Activity that engages the body and the mind is great for overall growth and development.
Start when your children are young and create balanced entertainment for them. They will grow up happy and healthy. They will learn to use their minds and body in the right way.
