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Children's Entertainment - Who needs entertaining?
By Rachel Branston
What price to entertain our children? How much entertainment do our children need? At the risk of sounding
like an old fuddy duddy, how were children entertained a 100 years ago when there were no television or computer
games? Very simply I would imagine.
Imagination - The key to all adventures. Babies and small children will play with simple things like empty boxes,
clothes pegs, pots and pans. To them they are all sorts of things because they use their imagination. They don't
expect to be entertained with expensive toys or computer systems they just need to touch and feel things to have
fun. Simple songs with actions will be remembered well beyond childhood years and hopefully be passed on to the
next generation of children needing to be entertained. Dressing up, making things out of cardboard and paper,
the possibilities are endless all that is needed is a little imagination.
Birthday parties used to be simple affairs, nowadays our children expect to have an entertainer or bouncy castle
at their parties. Whatever happened to pass the parcel or blind mans buff? The more entertainment we provide
for our children the more they seem to need.
Today's society seems to dictate the trend, maybe we should all try and steer our children gently back to simple
entertainment. Switch the 'telly' off, dig out the board games, if you can survive the moans and groans of your
children then you might just be able to persuade them that entertainment needn't be just by means of televisions
and computers. You can have fun together. You can talk and communicate and entertain each other. Go out to
the theatre, see a pantomime, all good fun ways of entertaining the whole family. Memories are precious, if you
have a great family night out and have fun together, you will keep the memory for a long time.
Small children used to be given colouring books and pencils, now the trend is to plonk them down in front of the
television and let it entertain them. Who knows what information they are subjected to. Children will learn to
be inactive, not a healthy pastime.
How often have you heard the words I am bored. Does this mean the child needs to be entertained?
Certainly not, if you were to suggest that you can find something for them to do you will find that your child
miraculously finds something to entertain them.
Something as simple as playing with a ball can be healthy, amusing, fun, and the more people taking part in the
game the merrier. Which one of us hasn't been involved in a football game or game of cricket or rounders, which
has grown into an incredible amount of people on both sides. Who cared who won? Playing and entertaining you
was all that mattered and it was healthy!
Interaction with others will stand our children in good stead by teaching them social skills and encouraging them
to lead a healthy active lifestyle. So encourage your children to go on out there, go with them, entertain, be
entertained and have fun !!!
About the Author
Rachel Branston is the author of a childrens' book
series
"My Travels with Trevor". Each book can be supplied
as a personalized child book with
your child's name.
Visit http://www.trevors-tales.com.
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