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Tired, tired, tired...

My sister-in-law and I were sitting watching our eldest hooligans playing in the splash pool today trying to just put up our feet for a while only to have to get up to sort out a squabble or two, or just to sort them out! We were discussing the problem and wondering why our children are so hyperactive these days and we decided it was the fact that we have so much modern technology around - children just don't have time to lie on their beds and just think, or just lie there dreaming. We push our kids into every activity we can, they are spending hours at school from the age of four months, if not sooner, and TV has become the cheapest and easiest babysitter there is. So what do we do? She and I are fortunate to stay at home with our babies and have the luxury of sending our two eldests to school when we want to, at the ages of 3 and 4 respectively, but many women do not have that luxury. I do believe that if we can manage to afford to stay at home with our babies and kids that we should, breastfeed our kids as long as possible and try not to expose them to too much too soon it is a start, I just don't know where to go from there? I would appreciate any suggestions! So I leave you all with that food for thought...

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  1. JustineDecember 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM

    All I can say is, think of when we were small. (Yes I know we had open fields to run and play in) but I don't remember watching much TV at all. Holidays were time for crafting, I made so many recycled Christmas cards, played hours of fingerboard, made drum sets from my mom's pot and pans (they still have marks in them where I banged on them with steel spoons to create a louder noise) Anyway, all I can say is switch off the tv and let your kids use their own imagination and let them be. No book says they have to do certain things at certain ages, let them go at their own pace.

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