My seven-year-old daughter is not doing well in school. She even hates doing schoolwork at home. All she wants to do is play video games, watch television and play with friends. There is no game she doesn’t know how to play on her play station and she beats us all. The way she interprets the films she watches just shows how intelligent she is but we just don’t know where she is losing it. How do we help her? – Mativenga
Dear Mativenga
I also don’t believe your child is dumb. It is our responsibility as parents to build a very strong educational foundation for our kids at that early age. Spoiling your kid with such modern technology as play station, x-box and toys is not a bad thing in itself, but as parents it is your duty to see that your kid is not having too much of it.
You need to give your daughter a timetable; television and games should be strictly limited to specific times. You can also use them as rewards for when homework and chores have been done, or a book read or something like that. It is absolutely vital that you stick to a strict timetable – an hour a day of “screen time” is plenty for a seven-year-old.
Too much of these things will damage your child. You need to give her time to read, study and play outdoors. She needs to know that unless she finishes her assigned work there will be no time to watch television or play games. – Aunty Lisa
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