Your Child Would Rather Play With You Than Watch TV – It’s True!

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Remember that post I did on forgetting about how you look and just acting like a kid again?

Well, it turns out that a global study done by IKEA has given us even more reason to revisit our childhood…

“Surprising results from the largest global study ever conducted on child development and play show that kids overwhelmingly prefer playing with their parents over watching TV and using the Internet. When asked, kids chose playing with friends (89%) and parents (73%) with TV a very poor substitute for social interaction at only 11% and Internet 14%.”

Source: http://press.playreport.org/us/

Go check out the study and then turn off the computer and go play with your kids!!

What is your favorite game or activity to play with your kids?

1 comment

Anita from Bikini Wax Video says:

March 28, 2012 at 2:31 am (UTC -5 )

A girlfriend of mine put me onto this site not too long after I had my first, beautiful baby boy! I love your articles and couldn’t agree with this particular one any more. While I was pregnant I launched my own advice website – http://www.bikiniwaxvideo.org – because staying at home was becoming far too much for me to handle.

When my son finally arrived, despite being so taken with him the workaholic in me also was in the back of my mind pushing me to work more on the site but when you see the magical look in his eyes when he’s playing with Mummy then there is no WAY that anything – websites or TV – will ever get in the way!

Thanks for the write up and I hope they keep coming!

Anita. x