Reduce and Monitor Children’s Television Viewing
Relationship skills is taking a back seat to watching TV and videos and playing video games. Children are not interacting with each other to build necessary social skills. Children bring their computer games to school, which further decreases interactive games and activities. Preschool and primary school teachers repeatedly tell me that children are coming to school without basic social skills. These teachers believe that the media play a large role in this situation. The TV is a wonderful baby-sitter! The price we pay for that “baby-sitter” is costing our children the ability to develop socially.
Adapted from Free the Children! Conflict Education for Strong, Peaceful Minds, by Susan Gingras Fitzell, copyright 1997 Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, and Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers
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