What should children pay attention to when watching TV

Children watching TV properly is a form of entertainment and learning. It depends on how parents treat it correctly. So what are the precautions for children watching TV? How to guide children to watch TV correctly? The following editor will introduce you in detail.

Precautions for children watching TV

Avoid taking too long

Children are in a period of rapid physical and mental development. Watching TV for a long time every day can easily cause fatigue in children's nervous system and body, affect their physical and mental health development, and affect the normal progress of other activities such as learning.

It is best to limit the TV watching time for preschool children to less than 40 minutes a day.

Avoid being too close

Preschoolers always like to sit in the front when watching TV. In this way, the child's eyes are stimulated by the strong light from the screen for a long time, which not only reduces the child's visual acuity and adaptability, but also easily causes the reduction of the adjustment function of the ciliary muscle, and the lens gradually becomes convex, leading to myopia. Generally speaking, when watching TV, it is best to place the child's seat 2.5 to 4 meters away from the TV.

Avoid high volume

When preschool children watch TV for a long time under the stimulation of high volume, it is not only easy to reduce the auditory sensitivity and form bad auditory habits, but also easy to lead to a decrease in visual sensitivity. On the contrary, using a relatively low volume can greatly promote the development of children's hearing, vision, attention, etc.

Avoid too dark light

When watching TV, if the indoor light is too dim, it will affect the development of children's visual function and easily lead to the appearance of myopia. When watching TV with your children at night, do not turn off all the lights. Install a small red light behind the TV to protect eyesight.

Avoid sitting in an incorrect posture

When children watch TV, they sit in a crooked position, such as leaning on a quilt or lying in their parents' arms. This can easily cause the child's unformed spine to deform and bend, and develop bad sitting habits.

Avoid watching it right after a meal

If children watch TV right after a meal, it is easy to divert the excitement center of their brains and make them highly focused on the content of the TV, which will cause stagnation of digestive juice secretion and accumulation of food, affecting gastrointestinal digestion. After a meal, it is better to let children do some light exercise before watching TV.

Avoid watching while eating

Children often do not chew the food in their mouths enough when they eat candies, melon seeds, etc. while watching TV, which can easily increase the digestive burden on children and affect their digestive function. If this continues for a long time, it is easy to develop a bad habit of eating snacks.

Avoid watching violent films

Preschool children who often watch martial arts and murder films are not only likely to be in a state of tension and fear for a long time, affecting their physical and mental health development, but also likely to arouse their curiosity and imitate, leading to an increase in their adaptability to bad social phenomena such as fighting and brawls, and an increase in aggressive and risky behaviors.

Avoid autism

Television and video game consoles are very attractive to children. Children have poor analytical thinking and are very imitative. If this continues, children will only be interested in TV programs and will be indifferent to the things around them. They will become lonely and may even develop abnormal psychological states.

Avoid lying down to watch

Some parents let their children lie down to watch TV, thinking that it is comfortable for the children. In fact, it is counterproductive and is quite harmful to the children's health. Some people like to lie on the bed or sofa to watch TV, thinking that it is comfortable and saves effort. Their children also follow suit and lie down to watch TV. In fact, lying down to watch TV has many disadvantages. This is because when lying down to watch TV, not only do you have to tilt your head and sideways, but you also need to tilt your neck and turn your eyes.

How to guide children to watch TV correctly

Reasonably control the TV viewing time of children. The TV viewing time should be controlled within 2 hours a day, and help children develop good viewing habits in time, such as not watching TV while eating.

Take some time to watch TV with your children regularly and pay attention to their inner feelings. A recent survey shows that watching TV with your children regularly can greatly reduce the negative impact of violent scenes on children (such as Ultraman, which contains violent scenes).

Pay attention to your child's facial expression when watching TV to see if he or she shows any signs of fear, admiration, excitement or anger. Once you feel that your child's reaction to the TV content is noteworthy, you need to discuss it with your child immediately to eliminate the negative psychological impact of TV on your child in the bud.

Combine watching TV with communication and discussion activities, use sensitive TV program topics to guide children to discuss and improve their comprehension ability, and help them understand the content of TV programs. It is best for teachers to accompany and explain appropriately. After watching, let the children repeat what they saw to exercise their oral expression and logical thinking abilities. After the show is over, have a post-viewing discussion with the children, which is an effective way to cultivate children's thinking ability, discrimination ability, oral expression ability, and enhance communication and emotions with peers and teachers and students.