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DVD/VCRs in cars (was punishment)
In article , Scott Lindstrom
writes: This is veering off topic, but I don't understand the need for, say, DVD players in a car so you can see a movie while driving. If your kid is bored, so be it. Let them learn to cope. What's the deal with constant entertainment? Hopefully, you can't actually see it while driving, but while riding there are times they are helpful. We mostly use ours when driving after dark, when reading and most of the other car games don't work as well. -Marjorie |
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punishment
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==Daye== wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:26:24 EDT, Elizabeth Gardner wrote: There shouldn't be any home dividend for getting into trouble at school or daycare, IMO. I agree. Actually, your list of what is okay for the child to do sounds fine. It gives them something to do without any special rewards. Frankly, I'm not sure how I could stop her from reading or playing with toys, short of locking her up in a room stripped of all possible sources of entertainment. Not that I'd want to. But I can stop her from watching TV (my husband has made it too complicated for her to turn on without my aid), and using the computer (because I'm using it for my work, which is one reason she's in daycamp to begin with). Luckily for us, outside authority figures rarely report any problems. It's only us she's likely to act up with. |
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punishment
In article , "E" says...
the one point I haven't heard is "what if not going to the day care center was not an option?" what would she have done then? Edith Found another option. Banty |
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"E" wrote in message
... the one point I haven't heard is "what if not going to the day care center was not an option?" what would she have done then? Since all the other kids were going on the field trip, it would have tied up a teacher to watch my kid back at the center. It seemed best for all concerned to keep her at home. beeswing |
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"Beeswing" wrote in message ... "E" wrote in message ... the one point I haven't heard is "what if not going to the day care center was not an option?" what would she have done then? Since all the other kids were going on the field trip, it would have tied up a teacher to watch my kid back at the center. It seemed best for all concerned to keep her at home. beeswing OK, I'm glad that was able to work out OK. I'm just concerned because it will not be an option for me when I go back to work as my DH and my jobs are not that flexible. I was just wondering what the other options were. Edith nak |
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"E" said:
OK, I'm glad that was able to work out OK. I'm just concerned because it will not be an option for me when I go back to work as my DH and my jobs are not that flexible. I was just wondering what the other options were. Edith A brat at the daycare we use was recently suspended for a few days for, among other things, hitting a little girl, and then scratching her and hitting two other kids when he found out that somebody had told on him. If the parents both work, I suppose one had to call in sick or take vacation time, or they had to impose on a friend or relative or pay the drop-in rate at some other care center. You can never rely on a daycare center to be available every day. Sometimes they take holidays that your work doesn't observe. Sometimes your child will be sick and won't be allowed to attend. |
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Karen G wrote: That the tv/vcr was that effective gives a clue that tv is not on all the time at your house. No, it's not, but the 2yo watches more than the others, and more than I'd ideally like him to (averages about 1.5 hours per day, I'd say). The big kids watch almost no TV at all -- maybe an hour or two per week! For short trips (less than one hour), a tv is probably not necessary--even for a two year old. Oh, sure, we do a 45-minute drive twice daily with no TV. I'm talking about longer trips (3+ hours) for the most part. That said, now that we have the TV, I have been known to stop by the library on the way home for a video for the 2yo on a day when he had a poor nap and has been falling apart over next to nothing before getting in the car.... Listening to crying/screaming for 45 minutes, and I have done it, has a very bad impact on my nerves and the older kids' as well! Not every day, by any means, but 3 or 4 times per month when we're having a rough day... --Robyn |
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Scott Lindstrom wrote: Six days of driving in 2 weeks. Ugh. Amazingly, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected it to be. Maybe I have peculiar kids, or a faulty memory (or both!), but I don't recall too onerous a time with DD or DS at age 2. Our longest trip I recall was about 13 hours -- Memphis to Madison in one day. Normally, as long as they had occasional new things to look at, or crayons, or even better, magnetic toys or tootsie pops, things were okay. But the last hour of this drive, about 9:30 at night, was a little tense Pre-TV-in-the-car, the things we used to entertain the other kids as toddlers were similar, but also lots of music they liked. (Unfortunately, we were not as fond of it, especially after long hours of listening to it. A side advantage of the VCR was with all kids plugged into that, we could listen to "our" music in peace. Lots of snacks too. We still used a lot of those types of distractions on this trip, but with nap schedules getting mangled over the course of the trip, etc. we did have some times when the 2yo was just inconsolable, except by TV. And, oh, what a blessing it was in those cases! Prior to the TV, it was almost inevitable that the last half hour of any trip 3 hours or longer would end with whichever child was the baby or toddler at the time screaming. How they sensed that it was the last half hour, I'll never know. By that point, none of the usual distractions worked. But somehow the TV seemed to do it. Perhaps because, as Karen G pointed out, it's not on all the time at home. --Robyn |
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DVD/VCRs in cars (was punishment)
Colleen Kay Porter ) wrote:
We use books on CD from the public library when we are on long road trips. On our recent trip to California, I brought _Come Sing, Jimmy Jo_ (on tape) and _A Cricket in Times Square_ (on CD) along, as the best I could find in the library at the last minute. _A Cricket in Times Square_ was so scratched that we couldn't listen to it, a pity as it might have made a lot more sense to the 4-year-old than _Come Sing, Jimmy Jo_ did. We don't have a lot of luck with CDs from the library -- out of several music CDs I checked out at the same time, I think only one was really listenable. --Helen |
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