TV Time: 150 Fun Family Activities That Turn Your Television and Into a Learning Tool
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Avon Books
- Publish date: 12/01/2008
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting children's exposure to TV to no more than two hours per day, and the Academy recommends that parents carefully monitor those hours. But how? With everything else parents have to do, it's hard to be the TV police, too. But now parents have "TV Time", a creative, "take charge" activity book that empowers parents by enabling them to use television to their family's advantage. With easy-to-play games, dialogues, mind-teasers, memory quizzes, and other creative play, children will learn how to think and critique as they watch TV and to comprehend the many subtle messages that TV presents. And "TV Time" helps get children actively involved in TV management through such activities as "TV Allowance" and "Let's Make a Deal". The bottom line is that children watching TV is not the problem, it's what they watch, how much they watch, and with whom they watch it. "TV Time" offers parents guidance and alternatives to completely eliminating television from their children's lives.