Moms today have an enemy in the Idiot Box which is bigger and more powerful than ever! They struggle with traditional ways of limiting the child’s TV time, treating the child to TV time on good performance and/or banning TV. These stunts worked for our generation – but a faster, cooler and more aware generations – these very “mom-stunts” have to metamorph!
This NINJA generation needs ninja-style moms…..adaptive!
Mommy NINJA techniques Ver 1 – 5/3/17:
- Let them have a few days or even a few weeks of TV binging on their favourite channel. Do NOT cringe and show any emotion. At most times mom react to too much TV and start screaming their heads off – and hence kids use the TV as a technique to attract attention. Now before you blow your gasket – one secret – almost 90% of all cartoons have “repeats” shown regularly, so the kids are bound to get bored stiff! BTW – to try this ninja-technique the ONLY ground rule is – ‘you can binge watch only cartoons’
- Join them in their cartoon watching! This is a sure way to develop either as – ‘I don’t think cartoons are cool enough as my mom watches them’ to ‘lets ONLY watch the cartoon with mom – as thats our ME time’
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Watching cartoons with your KID! - Discuss each cartoon character thread bare and use them to teach the kids life-lessons. This can turn out to be a super powerful tool – and help you to empower your values and truths in the mind of the child. Eg Nobita from Doraemon keeps crying as he keeps flunking – because he doesn’t work hard and doesn’t do his HW. Now use this character to tell your kid what to do…. rather than just go… “you should study, else I shall punish you” simply change your language to “see Nobita doesn’t work hard and see what happens to him – do you want to be like him?”
- TV becomes a negotiating tool between Moms and Grandmoms – so by following the above 4 – you simply neutralize this ‘threat’ 😉
- TV / cartoons are often used as tools of negotiating better grades – I don’t like this one at all! But many a times a worn out Ninja mom – may have to resort to this … don’t berate yourself – its ok! We all have our weaker moments!
5 simple Ninja Techniques – for the mom of today!
Try them 😉
Ps – some of them have yielded amazing results for my friends and family!
Pps – you can decide to you 1 or more of these techniques – that shall depend on your own nature and your kid’s nature 😉