Many parents wonder: how long can pass my son in front of the TV? According to recent studies in North America, children spend an average of 3 to 4 hours a day watching TV, when the ideal would be that the exposure time does not exceed 60 minutes diarios.cada day, my children leaving school and going home to picnic while viewing their favorite animated series. However, today this series doesn't stop or start another program that they get bored, it continues with another chapter or another series that they even like more than the previous. Then, it seems to me that I always tell the same: apagad tele, which we must begin to do homework! And so we somewhere in a filmstrip tug-of-war is repeated daily. Nowadays, there are channels dedicated exclusively to children's programming series for breakfast to go to school, to picnic... and even to spend the morning when the child is malito at home or the evening when it has no duties. Family TV To avoid children spend too many hours in front of the TV, parents must select programs specific to them, that are appropriate to their level of development. And, above all, it is advisable to establish certain periods of time in which television must be off. Thus the hours of study, which require a level of concentration and must devote to learning, are not to sit face to television while trying to do the homework. The same should happen with hours of meals, which are to chat with other members of the family and not to watch television.

But, if what we want them to be responsible at the time and the content they see on television, we can also teach them to use the scheduling of TV in a healthy and positive way. How? Watching programs with them, talking about them on the positive values that are mentioned, pointing them positive behavior of characters or rejecting the refusal as violence, making comparisons with real events or places you have visited and being critical of the role of advertising and its influence on purchases.And don't forget that the best thing is to lead by example.

New Marisol.GuiaInfantil.com editor