Control the Remote
It’s 7 in the evening, do you know, what your kids are watching? More importantly, are the shows your kids love right for them? Here’s how to tell…
Believe it or not, TV can be good for kids. It’s just a matter of choosing shows that fit these criteria:
Appropriateness. Shows should note kids’ developmental stages and needs — communicating at their level, featuring child characters, depicting Filipino culture, using familiar and local contexts, believable heroes, reconcilable story lines.
Promotes positive values. Shows should reinforce positive values and character building, depict good manners and codes of proper behavior. These may be:
- Physical or biological (healthy food habits, safety, hygiene, exercise)
- Intellectual (critical thinking, reasoning, knowledge)
- Moral (practice of Filipino values, personal discipline, honesty)
- Spiritual (prayer and faith in God)
- Environmental (protection and conservation of resources, respect for life, cleanliness)
- Economic (positive attitude toward work, industriousness, saving)
- Social (appreciation of individual and cultural diversity)
- Political (heritage, national unity, diplomacy)