TV

It has occurred to me that we need to do something different with out TV viewing. Initially we set out to only let Sophia watch cartoons at times we thought appropriate. We had the TV on the rest of the time for ourselves. With Sophias mature age of 19 months and counting, she is now more aggressive about pouting and being upset. Yesterday Amanda and I attempted to watch one of our favorite shows while Sophia was in her charging around time after her afternoon nap. Sophia wasn't interested in the show, but we were so we tried to pay some attention to the TV. This didn't go to well. At one point I thought maybe she hadn't had any sort of snack from her nap and asked Sophia if she wanted a snack. This didn't go over well with Amanda as she pointed out to me that we don't want Sophia to learn to soothe herself with food.

At any rate we need to change our TV viewing schedule. If Sophia sees everything we do, she is going to see and has seen that we spend much of our time looking at the TV screen. Because it is always on. I think we ought to start having the TV off after she wakes up from her naps, only turning the TV back on for news during dinner time. This way Sophia sees that the TV isn't always at someones viewing discretion and it would give her time to focus on her things we have set out for her. Sophia is learning all kinds of things lately and the more time we put into advancing the better.

I haven't talked to Amanda about this yet as I came up with the idea last night laying in bed. Maybe this idea won't go so well, she can always to defer to maternal instinct and say the TV should be on. I also won't be able to enforce this idea either, since I am gone most of the time doing farming things. I don't really intently watch TV much when I am home either. If I get up in the morning I might watch ESPN for a little while, and I might watch the buckeyes basketball in the evenings, but that is about it. Some things I may DVR for later, but I find that I don't have the time I really need to watch those. I should be reading more anyways and modeling behavior that I want Sophia to learn when I am home.

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