2006-09-04 07:00:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
It reinforces gender roles.
2006-09-04 07:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My two-and-a half year-old daughter is homeschooled and does not watch TV. We do allow some favorite children's videos; I would say she gets about 30 minutes a day of video time, matched by about an hour to two hours of being read to from classic books daily. (plus simple workbooks, puzzles, games, and one poem a day)
She plays independently and very creatively (she is quite articulate for her age), but it is obvious that the visual medium of children's movies has a large impact on her play. Often she picks up a stuffed toy or small animal and talks to it and has it respond to her, and the following scenarios are the most common.
a) reenacting a situation which has happened between child and parent (a conversation about what we should have for lunch, a disagreement over naptime, a disciplinary incident, a fun new 'tickle game', etc.)
b) acting out short situations from her videos, or making up her own story line but incorporating key phrases and ideas from the videos (such as Little Bear being nervous in thunderstorms and singing a song to distract himself, Pooh finding a delicious honey tree, Clifford the Big Red Dog going shopping for a birthday present for Emily, etc.) Even if she does not have the characters to hand, she uses the ideas and the exact words to help her forward her play.
c) reciting (rather than acting out) large sections of her favorite children's books, often trying to involve one or the other of her parents in the recital (almost the entire 'Green Eggs & Ham' book, page after page of 'Fox In Socks', most Sandra Boynton stories, such as 'Birthday Monsters', and so on)
Hope this helps!
Bardmistress
2006-09-04 07:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by bardmistress 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋