Just 2 weeks ago, my friend visiting from London asked me if Xuan likes to watch TV. “Mmm...not so much, she can’t even sit for the duration of one song...and we’re talking short nursery rhymes here.”
Fast forward 2 weeks, and my little girl is turning into one serious TV addict.
“Like mother, like daughter” my husband would say. I tend to agree, I’ve been bugging him for ages to get satellite TV, currently we only have normal TV which only has 6 channels. If I had satellite TV, the TV would be on most of the time.
Now, Xuan can point towards the TV to ask it to be turned on. There is a DVD of nursery rhymes that my sister bought for her when she was 2 months old, and we’ve been playing it for her almost everyday...she loves to watch this. She will sway and dance along to the music. There are 2 parts during the DVD when there are sounds of children laughing, and Xuan can actually recognise the parts and laugh out loud before or along together with the DVD!
Aside from it being wildly amusing watching her laugh, sway and dance along to the music, it’s a bit of a relief as well. Because now I can leave her in the living room while I go wash stuff or cook in the kitchen. Although I still pop in and out to check on her, the frequency is much less compared to last time when she would start making a fuss once I walk away.
The danger in this convenience is overusing the TV as a babysitter so that I can do my own stuff without her clamouring for my attention every 2 minutes. So...I really have to limit Xuan and myself to no more than 1/2 hour of TV watching, twice a day...just enough time for me to wash the breakfast stuff, prepare her lunch and then again to wash the lunch stuff, and maybe do a bit of surfing or blogging. Still...it is tempting...just as well we don’t have satellite TV afterall.
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