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