Does your child have a character obsession? Mine does. He loves Dora and Diego and many TV characters that are introduced to him by Nick Jr. I don't like this fact. So my solution was to limit TV and making more time with him. It is sometimes good to let your child get over his obsession about the TV characters by reading books and making crafts that features them. Every time we go to the library, he looks for Diego and Dora's books and I look for other interesting books. When we come home, he pretend he is reading Diego and Dora's book. In fact, he can tell what the story is about almost by looking at images! And as far as the crafts go; the other day, I made a tree house out of an empty box with my son. He wanted it because Diego had a tree house that was his so called "rescue center". He brought his little Diego toy and played with it for a least 2 hours. I couldn't ask for more that day!
Another day we made "yo gabba gabba" characters using simply construction papers ( He is not obsessed about them, but interested in making them.) How do you solve your child's TV character obsession? What do you do about princesses and heros that your child love? Do you think it is healthy to leave them alone with their obsessions or is it dangerous?
My little girl is still a running around toddler, exploring the world! She is still not obsessed abou any cartoon charactar, or yet person! :) but I do think we need to something to replace the "fake heros"! we need to let our kids to see beyond the TV screens and discover the world using papers, plates, and colors! there are just a lot we could do to have fun and engaging relationship with our kids! keep up the good work and post the pics!
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