"NO TV" traning

We were advised by a child development profession friend that we should limit their TV time. Instead, encourage them to play more on the floor. It was hard to do so because the TV helped to distract them so that I could do something else without watching them. The first day without TV last Monday, they had to adjust. They were forced to play on the floor and move around to kill time. Because of no TV, HY was bored and she fell in asleep on the floor on her own while she was playing. It was a good nap for HY. Because of the nap, she didn't get too fuzzy. She kept on playing after the nap.

EY has mastered her crawling during the very same no TV week. She no longer did her rolling over or flipping over. Once a while she still pushed backwards but majority of the time, she was able to get onto her all four -- hands and knees on the floor, tummy off the ground. At first she was tumbling down after each crawl step. After a week, she mastered it and she could just take off to different corner of the house.

HY was willing to spend more time lying down on the floor instead of just sitting. She would try to get on her all four to crawl forward. But, her legs were not strong enough to get her tummy off the ground. She could crawl one step then fell back on her tummy. Her usual tactic towards grandparents was to cry and look with her sad face with no tears to signal grandparents to pick her up and put her closer to where the toy was. Of course I knew that was her trick and I told her that she was doing great and I looked somewhere else. When she knew she had to do it on her own, she tried and tried and screamed a bit, then tried again. She somehow pushed her body to rotate 360 degree and in the process of her rotation, she moved closer to the toy. I had no idea how she figured out that way. It could be just random success. Only if she could repeat that, then it means she really came up with the solution. Otherwise, pure luck, haha.

It was hard not the turn on the TV while the girls were awake. We only watched TV after the girls went to sleep. But, we did it! Even grand parents were cooperating when we told them not to watch TV while the girls around. And, we were glad that we tried and the girls now are more active moving around.