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TV Is Here To Stay

Written by Cherry Pua Africa

Topic: Child DevelopmentPublished October 12, 2008
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Here’s today’s reality

A study by Dorothy Singer, Jerome Singer and Diana Zuckerman in 1989 revealed that more than 99% of American families owned at least one television set. Many families owned two or three, and 68.8% of homes owned a videotape recorder.

TV is already here to stay. We can't get away with it. In this modern age of incessant hurry, of instant noodles and fast food counters, our world has already changed. TV has assumed a more prominent role in the household. TV becomes the surrogate nanny. It’s convenient and it’s cheap.

Here’s a thought

What if we endow our television set with super teaching powers? What if instead of seeing it as your child’s reading nemesis, you start learning from it?

Television can teach us an important lesson in raising readers. As reading parents, we should never be boring!

Our children are telling us loud and clear, “Mom, dad, never, never, never ever be boring!” TV can become your child’s reading prop, no different from a puppet or a teddy bear.

In limited doses, as television serves as an easy companion for relaxation and escape, it can also be beneficial to reading. The key word here is limited. Do not let the habit interfere with your child’s ability to grow, to learn new things and to lead an active life.

How can we then make television our greatest reading Buddy? Discover the greatest secret of television by logging on to www.geniuschilddevelopment.com.

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About the Author

Cherry Pua-Africa is the author of stories such as The True Story of Humpty Dumpty that was recognized and awarded by Japan SV Association, The Culture Cat Series used by Cambridge Informatics throughout its franchise network and the Story Ring. She is also the producer of the educator's favorite storytelling CDs entitled The Story Ring and Never Ending Rhythm and Rhymes.

She is currently the Managing Director of Never Ending Story, a Singapore-based education consultancy firm providing training and coaching service to educators and school business managers and developing high impact school programmes. Cherry is also a director of ACT English in Thailand and has managed several kindergartens and speech and drama centres.

To date, Cherry's clients include Cambridge Child Development Centres (Informatics Singapore), ACTs of life Singapore, Singapore Repertory's Little Theatre Company, Singapore Asian Civilisations Museum, Total Child Centre Malaysia, Kinder Minds Philippines, etc. She has given high impact workshops at the National Storytelling Network in the USA, International Reading Association, Southeast Asian Education Ministers Organization, Chitrlada Royal School in Bangkok, SEGI College in Malaysia and so on.

Cherry is currently a columnist in the education section of The Star newspaper in Malaysia and Bangkok Post in Thailand. She was also a guest consultant in famous child-related TV programmes in the Philippines, being a former speaker of Gain's Multiple Intelligences and has appeared in Bangkok Post, Singapore Parent Magazine, Manila Bulletin, Manila Chronicle, The Nation, Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philippine Parents' Magazine.

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