Sensible Entertainment at Home

What do you do during your free time or during the day? Every family has activities that they engage in and especially young children. It is important to ensure that a family has wholesome forms of entertainment that foster growth, development and encourage bonding. Nothing is worse than having nothing to do. Usually this leads to mischief.


Keeping your children engaged in some fun activity the enjoy may sound easy but it may not be as easy to achieve. Children have a short concentration span and they need constant stimulation. The need both active and passive forms of entertainment. You also want to know that what they are doing is safe for them physically, emotionally and socially.



Passive entertainment does not call for any involvement at all. You mainly sit back, do nothing and enjoy. TV has been the leading form of passive entertainment with kids enjoying cartoons like Ben 10, Dora and so on. Many parents have knowingly and unknowingly misused this form of entertainment by letting their kid watch TV mindlessly for hours and without any form of supervision. While this walks to keep children busy, it is very dangerous.

Passive entertainment is the kind where child is not directly involved in the entertainment activity. Here is where TV comes in. Unfortunately many parents allow their children to only experience passive entertainment especially watching TV and movies. It is a common thing for children to spend all their time mindlessly watching TV. Cartoons like Ben 10, Hannah Montana and many others have become a strong addiction in children.


When it comes to active entertainment, it requires the children to get involved in some way. It may be watching a video with activities or going outside to ride a bike or play football. This form of entertainment is very good because it causes your child to use all his five senses, get up on his feet and get active. It also requires the involvement of parents or a guardian, making is great for the family to spend time together.  This need for parents to get involved is one reason why active entertainment is less common. Parents tend to be too busy to find the time.


The two forms of entertainment have pros and cons. The simple remedy for a family is to make time for both kinds of entertainment, taking advantage of the benefits each has to offer and avoiding the negatives.  Balance is the name of the game here.


To find balance, parents must learn how to make time for different activities. They must be able to provide their children with an environment that gives them both kinds of entertainment. Creativity comes with when parents have to think out of the box and make the most of their time and space. Who’s to say that you cannot play a game, paint a picture or something active right in your house?


Any activity that involves the mind or gets the body moving is amazingly refreshing and beneficial. This ensures proper growth and development and of course bonding and team work also comes into the picture.


Start when your children are young and create balanced entertainment for them. They will grow up happy and healthy. They will learn to use their minds and body in the right way.