TV during the school week for students?

binx
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:17:09 +0000

I’m not sure I follow, Pizzagirl. For example,

If you have to monitor when middle schoolers, how do you think they’ll self-monitor in high school?

If you have to monitor with elementary schoolers, how do you think they’ll self-monitor in middle school?

I mean no sarcasm - I have 6 year old piano students whose parents firmly believe they should be totally independent when it comes to practicing. And I have teen students whose parents still make practicing a requirement. Each has a different idea about when parents should back-off, and how much “responsibility” a child should take for his own schedule.

You get my drift — everone has different cut-off points. My MO is that I will help them develop good habits while they are under my roof with the hope that some of it sticks when they are gone. “Helping to create good habits” to one person is, I guess, “monitoring” to another.

(This is all hypothetical, of course. My kids are all grown. None took a TV to college, and only one roommate had one, and D asked her to use headphones.)