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TV Shows that help promote good behavior

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TV Shows that help promote good behavior

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Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street are just two examples of TV shows that can be watched with parents and can help provide valuable lessons for children.

There are many opportunities for make believe play to be modeled and for scaffolding or guided participation to be discussed with parents while watching these shows.

Sesame Street provides lessons on racial harmony, cooperation, kindness, simple arithmetic and the alphabet

Children take virtual field trips to the zoo, library, bookstores, museums and parks.

With proper parental involvement these TV shows can be perfect moments to interact with your children and stimulate many of the areas both Piaget and Vygotsky speak about.

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Research done by Amy Bleakley, Amy B. Jordan, and Michael Hennessy identified different ways that you can watch TV with your child and help build some of these relationships.

Coviewing, when a parent and child watch TV together, allows for opportunities for media literacy and identification of appropriate content

Conversations can stem from different educational TV shows and many important lessons can be reinforced

Too much parent TV time can be modeling inappropriate usage of TV and should be monitored

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Excessive time watching TV decreases the amount for time parents are interacting with their children.  Parent-child interactions are important to help children acquire new skills.

Without guided parent interactions students will be left alone to figure out answers to many questions. They are not receiving the proper scaffolding, they will not be enhancing their zone of proximal development and they will not be engaging in guided participation.

Without these chances to gain knowledge from parents, children begin to fall behind their same aged peers.

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The engagement in make believe play can help develop self-regulation skills in children.
Children can practice
*delayed gratification
*reduced aggression
*empathy

Children can practice communication, problem solving and empathy

TV shows do not allow children time to practice these skills and when watching inappropriate shows these ideas can be portrayed in a negative manner.

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Excessive time spent watching TV decreases the time children spend playing with each other, interacting in make believe play, drawing and real world relations.

Research done at Princeton University found that infants and toddlers learn better from real-life experiences than from video

Screen time limits the development of sociodramatic play and does not allow for children to explore different topics (positive and negative) through their play.

A child watching images of a farm and farm animals on Baby Einstein does not give them the same effect as acting out being a farmer or using plastic farm animals and acting out a farm scene!

Childhood play allows for cognitive flexibility and creativity.
Creativity can be expressed through children's drawings.

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* zone of proximal development
*scaffolding
*guided participation
How does TV effect these areas?

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Piaget Preoperational Stage 2-7 years old 

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Piaget Preoperational Stage 2-7 years old 

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* Make believe play
* drawings

How does TV effect these areas?

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Two groups of children were given blocks: Group 1 revived the blocks at the beginning of the trial and Group two received them towards the end.
Parents were asked to play with them by building things, stacking them etc.
In a language test 6 months later the children who received the blocks early scored higher (56%) with language ability than those who received them later( 42%)
** It is important to be engaging young children with these types of activities t help develop language and brain functioning!

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Reading, singing, going to museums

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Prolonged exposure to rapid image change during critical period pf development will precondition mind to expect high levels of stimulation and later in life it will lead to inattention

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Too much brain stimulation is bad, but not enough is bad too...