{"id":257,"date":"2006-10-30T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2006\/10\/30\/our-book-diet-day-4\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:00:16","slug":"our-book-diet-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiemommy.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Our book diet &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--amm_getMediaID('amm_my_first_go',13)--><\/p>\n<p>It is amazing to see my children&#8217;s attention spans already lengthening after only a week of consistantly cutting back tv and increasing their book intake  \ud83d\ude42  They are begging for more books, and we are now taking daily (rather than weekly or bi-weekly) trips to the library.  My daughter (2 1\/2) likes to re-read her favorites, but my son (4 1\/2) loves the adventure of a new book.  He has started checking out non-fiction books about dinosaurs, boats, and airplanes, and now that&#8217;s his new favorite category.  They are both back to reading books while we drive around town, which was a habit they had started to lose.<br \/>\nNot only can they pay attention longer, but their imaginative play is increasing by leaps and bounds.  They seem to be making up for lost time!  My kids didn&#8217;t even watch that much, and yet still we are seeing a dramatic improvement.  May I also mention that they are much less frustrated and getting out a whole lot more energy.  Something about reading for half an hour really calms them down.  Watching TV for the same amount of time leaves them all revved up.<br \/>\nMy quote for the day, as I reflect back on the amount of Dora and The Backyardigans my kids were watching , from <em>The Read-Aloud Handbook<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vocabulary of television is lower than nearly all forms of print, from comic books to children&#8217;s books and newspapers and magazines.  A study of the scripts from eight programs favored by teenagers showed a sentence averaged only seven words (versus eighteen words in my local newspaper).  Since TV is a picture medium, a fair comparison would be with children&#8217;s picture books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>72 percent of the TV scripts consisted of simple sentences or fragments\/<\/li>\n<li>In <em>Make Way for Ducklings<\/em> by Robert McCloskey, only 33 percent of the text is simple sentences.<\/li>\n<li>In <em>The Tale of Peter Rabbit<\/em> by Beatrix Potter, only 21 percent of the text is simple sentences. (p. 203-204)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Thus one can say even good children&#8217;s <em>picture<\/em> books contain language that is <em>at least<\/em> twice the complexity of television&#8217;s.  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