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<blockquote data-quote="Andrea Danielle" data-source="post: 23616" data-attributes="member: 2357"><p>Hi there, I have put a lot of thought into this topic myself. I had posted about this a few months ago. My 5 year old difficult child is a sponge for everything he sees on TV, he repeats lines of things he sees constantly. He doesn't forget a thing, it is scary. Nothing gets past him, he especially remembers anything negative. The other issue we have with TV's is that there are explosions over turning off the TV or fighting over what to watch. So, we have tried a few different things, we "broke" our TV's, and e said we couldn't afford to fix them. So for 2 months they watched no TV at all. It was great but there was no respite, which we all really need. So, we brought back the TV's but now say that we have the kind of TV's that only work on weekends. So, FRiday night to Sunday difficult child can watch TV but during the week, we just unplug them - he hasn't figured it out yet. This seems to be the best way for us. During the week we avoid all of the battles which TV's bring. And on the weekends, we can do housework or just relax while he watched some G rated TV shows or movies. We also have him in activities on the weekend, like swimming and circus class so that he isn't able to just lie on the couch and watch TV all weekend.</p><p></p><p>We all do what works for us!</p><p></p><p>Andrea</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrea Danielle, post: 23616, member: 2357"] Hi there, I have put a lot of thought into this topic myself. I had posted about this a few months ago. My 5 year old difficult child is a sponge for everything he sees on TV, he repeats lines of things he sees constantly. He doesn't forget a thing, it is scary. Nothing gets past him, he especially remembers anything negative. The other issue we have with TV's is that there are explosions over turning off the TV or fighting over what to watch. So, we have tried a few different things, we "broke" our TV's, and e said we couldn't afford to fix them. So for 2 months they watched no TV at all. It was great but there was no respite, which we all really need. So, we brought back the TV's but now say that we have the kind of TV's that only work on weekends. So, FRiday night to Sunday difficult child can watch TV but during the week, we just unplug them - he hasn't figured it out yet. This seems to be the best way for us. During the week we avoid all of the battles which TV's bring. And on the weekends, we can do housework or just relax while he watched some G rated TV shows or movies. We also have him in activities on the weekend, like swimming and circus class so that he isn't able to just lie on the couch and watch TV all weekend. We all do what works for us! Andrea [/QUOTE]
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