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From Icadyptes
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.
Normally, you may not think much about entertainment until you have a family, especially when the kids show up. Just taking a shower can prove to be a hard thing if your children have nothing better to do. They will follow you around or do some really bad things around the house when you are not there.
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. 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.
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.
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.
