How to watch TV for the benefit of children: three pieces of advice of a school psychologist – 66.ru

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On the dangers of the TV for the children referred to constantly. But the TV program can bring benefit and – if approached with a mind to view.

Known Soviet educators and parents with many children Elena and Boris Nikitin in his time practicing family TV viewing. Learning and developing the transmission, historical films and plays, cartoons and sports programs they watched with their seven children.

Yekaterina Vlasova, teacher and school psychologist with 40 years of experience:

– presented modern family without the TV difficult. But there is a difference in how to watch TV. Of course, if it is included in the morning and switched off when all go to sleep while watching everything – is evil. And not only for children but also for adults. But if you choose from a variety of channels and programs, the ones that are really interesting, and look for a limited time, harm the child’s mind it will bring.

The very Katherine regularly watches television with his grandchildren . “We have an interactive TV on” Rostelecom “, so that we can select the appropriate transmission channels and we” – says the teacher. Animal Planet, National Geographic, the first educational, Viasat Nature, Ocean TV, Da Vinci Learning, Viasat History, IQ HD – kids watch transmission broadcast on these channels. “The younger grandson Ilya learned of the transfer to Animal Planet, why wolves howl and how much of the day to eat an elephant. He came into the garden, told this because it all the guys listened to, and the teacher then asked me where he is in his three years knows it, “- says the grandmother.

Rostelecom offers several dozen developmental and cognitive channels

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Alice – 12, she is studying in 6th grade: “I want to speak good English. Today, it is really very important. We once went to rest abroad, I’m even better than my mother explained to the staff at the hotel. But it is not so important, the main thing – I was able to communicate with their peers from other countries. ” In learning a foreign language Alice spends a lot of time.

Alice learns English

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Especially for Alice hooked channel English club TV – all transmissions here are in English. “I do several times a week, when I have time, watch interesting programs in English, almost all understand and at the same time new words teach” – says Alice.

Katherine says about another useful feature of interactive television. “Remember, as in a cartoon Matroskin said:” Joint work united. ” So joint viewing educational programs we also brings “- laughing teacher.

After one transmission cycle, “Happy Lesson” grandmother and granddaughter together made the original paper lampshade for the light.

– As a child psychologist, I can say that it is prohibited to watch television – wrong. Forbidden fruit is known to be sweet. Far better would be to organize the television viewing so that it benefits both the child and the whole family.

Yekaterina Vlasova gives some tips on how to watch TV for the benefit of child development:

1. Do not look at everything. The child overtired from an excess of impressions and long sitting in one place.
2. Turn off the TV after watching, or for the child quickly depreciate the work of people “on the screen”, if they are broadcast and the empty chair.
3. Do not switch channels too often. The child unlearn empathize and be indifferent gaze slid all the pictures, without delving into what is happening.