lainie duro

!!!I mean no EXTERNAL noise! I would think something was seriously wrong if Monk was able to go any length of time without MAKING noise!



Message: 6
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:51:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Eileen M." <ravensegg@...>
Subject: Re: Re: No TV

Our son spends lots of time alone in his room, and
*never* has no-noise time. The whole time he's in
there he's humming, singing, doing sound effects and
'voices', acting out the parts for his various action
figures or beanies, acting out the bits for the D&D
scenario he's designing...

:D

Eileen



--- lainie duro <lainie@...> wrote:
> >>Message: 17
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:41:28 EDT
> From: SandraDodd@...
> Subject: Re: No TV
>
>
> In a message dated 4/27/01 9:34:58 PM,
> lainie@... writes:
>
> << And I wonder what TV
> does to him that causes him to not need or not want
> to take this time. >>
>
> Maybe TV WAS his downtime.
>
> Sandra<<
>
> This would be fine, except for the fact that I
> really feel that kids need periods without "noise"
> input. There's a big difference between sitting in
> your room by yourself just thinking, and sitting in
> front of a TV screen and watching. Monk does not
> have silent time *at all* when he has access to the
> television. He does have it (and he's pretty happy
> with it, I might add) when the television is off. I
> mean, if he could watch TV AND manage to have
> "non-noise" down time, I'd say that would be
> ok...but he can't.
>
> Monk and I talked about this last night, and he
> agreed that we could keep the TV off unless it's a
> rainy day or our special movie night. He seems OK
> with that decision, and I'm OK with it, too...
>
> I just think it's interesting that TV viewing has
> such a profound effect on him.
>
> livelifelove
> Lainie
>
>
>
>
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>
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