Children who loves watching tv and reading too..

i agree with everyone above. i believe that the parents are the one who influence the children. when i stayed with my dad on the weekends, he would do nothing but watch tv. in fact i've never ever seen my father read a book. so on the weekends i would do nothing but watch to tv. untill i came home to my mothers, who had a whole library in out house. i would read book after book after book. now a days im still addicted to the tv. but i read often too. so in conclusions, i believe its the parents.

I agree. Children thrive on their parents' attention. So reading with your child is a great way to spend quality time and instill in them a love for reading. Also, if they see you reading they are more likely to want to read too. I believe that parents need to limit the amount of "screen time" their children have - television and/or computer. They need to be playing active games/sports in the fresh air and reading good books. It is just too easy to let the t.v. entertain the kids and keep them out of their parents' hair. But it isn't good for the child.

When my son was a lot younger - which was not that long ago - the schools and his Dr always said that if you want your kids to read, the best thing you can do is for them to see you reading, even if it is just a magazine or the daily newspaper. BY seeing the parents interest in reading, the child is going to like to read. We have 2-3 bookshelves full of books, we are always going to the book store and the library. My son loves to read and looks forward to going to the library, but he does also really enjoy his TV shows.

People nowadays don't like to read, they think it's a waste of time. And that's only because some books have so many pages that they think it's boring to read it all. At least that's my friends' excuse not to read. I love to read and even if I don't read as much as when I was younger I still read. My parents always bought me books and I loved them. Parents don't seem to worry if their children read or not and that's a reason why children don't read more. TV is easier to watch, there is no need to think, to use your mind, while reading a book you need to focus on what you are reading. People don't like to make efforts, that's why most of them prefer watching TV to read a book.

I dont have children, but i do have cousins, they are 20 yrs younger than me. Their parents actually "seldom" to read book and prefer to watch news in tv. I always spend my time with them, ask about their studies and homework. I even talk many things about life, earth, or simple things about plants and animals. They were really interesting and asking me many questions, sometimes i even couldn't answer them. Children and young persons always "curious" for many things, they always wondering! Wise parents should bring their children, introduce them to the science and knowledge and basic morality. No child was born as a lazy or stupid one. They are developed to be a person as his model, his parents, adults around him, or his idols. Just give more exposures to their curiosity to the right way, through books and any " hi-tech" source of learning.

I love to read and have always encouraged my children to read they always have books around them and they are all members of our local library. But my 14 year old is not so keen on reading even tho he has been brought up with books. My four other children just love to read my baby often comes up to me with a book and wanting me to read to him we spend many happy hours just reading the same book over and over again. And my older children will read to him as well.

I completly agree with you.My son plays a lot, reads a lot, watches TV a lot, plays computer games a lot. He is Good in his studies too. All it has taken is a well planned time schedule and some discipline in his and our lives too.

My kids now adults are avid readers and now my grandkids the eldest will be 12 next month read a lot as well but they also like to watch some t.v shows. So it is pretty balanced all the way around. The kids love to read and the little ones to be read too. We also sing songs and dance and are musical. The kids love that as well. Different nights we do different things. Read, T.V, Board game, sing, dance nights.

You are very right, my friend. You assessment of the way things sometimes are is quite accurate. It's not the tv, the shows, what they see it's how every thing is handled by the parents. I often wonder about some parents that blame everything and then some on the tv when they spend a lot of their lives glued to the tv themselves. Children can watch tv and still read books, play sports, do well at school. Children that do this have parents that usually have common sense and provide the children with other things that can interest them other than tv, parents that sit down and read a book as well, parents that talk to their children about the programs they watch. Your simple thought is indeed correct, and I am glad I found this discussion.

My most favourite past-time is reading to my 5 year old son each and every night. We have had this routine going since he was six months old and we both cherish these 15 minutes at bed time. My son has a very creative mind and amazing imagination. Some TV shows encourage this (Dora the Explorer, Hi-5,Lazy Town to name a few)so TV definitely has a part to play in a childs life as long as it is quality TV. My son is not one to sit and watch telly unless others are watching it with him and then there is always dialogue going on about what we are viewing. It is very easy to whack the idiot box on to get some peace for yourself but think about the wonderful moments you may miss.

Hi there....as you said,the problem is not on the TVshous and the children but the parents who dont like reading.Actually,watching TV is not something bad,and the crucial point is how can you control,if you choose a good TV program and enjoy it together, maybe your children could learn something useful...of course,the same way of reading.

Maybe you are right. When I was 10 I liked to read and play games all day long but that's all in the past now....