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TV-Free Activities: 20 ideas for parents with children

It is true that there are many wonderful programs, entertainment, things to learn, and inspirational messages found on television. However, one thing we can all agree on is that the vast majority of images, programming and information we are bombarded on a daily television are not useful, healthy, educational or inspirational in any way.

The following list includes only 20 of the hundreds of ways parents can be more proactive to ensure that their children and homes are not influenced by the messages are often inappropriate and immoral and images of television programs. Choose the one you like and be creative and think of their own ideas. More importantly, make the effort to turn off the TV more and simply take time for children and families – the time spent playing, talking, laughing, educational and inspiring.

A) assess the nature Bring your son (s) outside and hear and enjoy nature. Look at the clouds and climate, collect bugs, bird watching, learn about plants and animals, etc.

2) Use Imaginations - Puppet Shows, plays, and Super Heroes Go home and collect clothes, toys and random objects. Then let your son (s) to be creative and imagination to put everything on a puppet show or doing a reading. That just use your imagination and game – Being a princess, superhero or a sports star, etc.

3) books, libraries and culture: Go to the library and let your son (s) do you want to read books. Develop in them a love of books and reading. Whether it's fiction, teaching, or just for fun – To read, and most importantly, reading, and often with them. Also, for books to teach other countries, customs, traditions, food, people, religions, races, etc.

) The Community and help others 4: Take your son (s) in the park, school or church and take the trash. Go help elderly neighbors with their yard. Hospital tour local orphanage, or shelter to the homeless and help someone in need. When finished, remove the ice cream.

5) Fun in the park or playground: turn off the TV and let your son (s) do the kids love do – fly, have fun, use their imaginations and play with them (and you).

6) The child loves to draw, color or paint: Let your son (s) not only develop their creative skills, but having fun while drawing, coloring or painting. This is more efficient – I do with them!

7) play together: Turn off the TV and play: four square, hopscotch, tag, Questions 20, rock paper scissors, musical chairs, "said Jacques, the shot can, Red Rover jump rope, hide and seek, etc. Get out the dictionary and make a game of spelling words. Play a board game card games, or any other fun family or children Thurs

CD and Geography: Draw a map and help his son (s) learn the 50 states and capitals. Learn what countries they are located. Learn the world's mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, cities, forests, etc.

9) Building Strong: Do you remember doing as a child and love, right? Take chairs and blankets or cardboard boxes, and only to build strong children. You see a movie, sleep, eat a chocolate bar in it, play in this field … and play with them!

10) Just type: Salt of paper and pencils and let the children just write. Encourage to use their imagination, creativity, improve their vocabulary, and express their feelings through stories, poems, or in the newspaper, etc.

11) Stories Stock Exchange: Take a bag and place inside her many random objects around the house. Then ask young people to use objects to invent stories, set up a puppet show, a play, so play with them and let them use their imagination and creativity.

12) Art The dough: Get the clay or play dough and let children be creative, artistic, and some fun things to build from clay.

13) Make Money: Challenge your children to think how they can make money (ideas, could inhibit the lemonade, garage sale, collect cans, fundraising, car washing, etc.) Come to think of ways, and then teaches them to keep the principal and interest.

14) After Extracurricular Activities: Instead of watching TV or playing video games – examining a sports team, dance group, screening program, the chorus of religious group or any other extracurricular activity.

15): Yes, the work! Teach children to ensure the importance of working to help around the house and yard clean room, bathroom, vacuuming, sweeping, mowing the grass, the car clean, etc, have full and a day job.

16) Scrapbooking Fun: Ask children cut out pictures from magazines or print photos from internet to your favorite things and make an album. It could be: sports personalities, heroes, animals, nature, newspaper clean family, etc.

Pen Pals) 17: Find a child from other countries and become a correspondent. Write, send photos and upgrades, develop a friendship and try to help.

18) Play with friends. That's it! Simply turn off the TV and let the children play together. Use your imagination or just playing together outside.

19) to reach people: Pick up the phone, send an e-mail, write a letter to a family member, grandparent, friend, etc. Besides, writing as "thank you note to the elderly, sick, military and your area.

20) Exercise and eat well: Run or walk with them and take them shopping and teach them about good nutrition, let them help prepare meals, etc.

Never forget that the activity you choose is not even what is important – The kids want fun and love of attention, not the guards! In fact, this is much more important than simply turning off the TV or guarantee the landscape of Animation has no influence on our children, which is developing relationships, building friendships and strengthening trust with our children. It is take the time who and what is most important in life.

"This requires that fathers and mothers to be creative, think outside of the box, and actually made an effort on? Se? Is it difficult? In many ways, yes! Will the phrase? Of course! And remember that your children will not be grateful for the time spent playing, teaching, laughter and love today – but it certainly will appreciate it fully once they are old enough to realize that there a father who loved and liked enough to turn off the TV and spend time with them!

About the Author

Matt is the founder of http://www.Tips4Families.com/ – a website full of helpful parenting advice, fun games and activities, traditions and holiday ideas, and tips and articles for families everywhere. Matt is also the author of: “Great Games! 175 Games & Activities for Families, Groups, & Children.” To view the book and learn more, visit: http://www.GreatGamesBook.com/