I’m not the kind of father who hurls a spear through any television he sees (how I imagine @HunterDrewTFA at home), I do let my kids watch carefully pre-screened movies and educational television shows. But there’s a careful method to it:
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3) If the movie has an accompanying picture book (older Disney movies and shorts do), this is a bonus because it helps them learn to love reading and memorize the story faster. My son loves the cartoon Grinch and the book.
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I see a lot of parents talk about the evils of television, but it’s like anything else: You get out of it what you put into it. The honest danger is how easy it is to check out and consume media passively rather than engaging with it.
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The bonus is media can help you give them context for things they might not normally encounter. My son is unlikely to see someone break down sobbing in real life but Disney movies have frequent sad scenes with characters mourning or crying so I can teach him to identify emotions.
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