As regular visitors to my blog will know I take a lot of photos with both of my boys in, usually when we have been out and about enjoying the great outdoors. However, since Burton started school last September, it has been harder to capture as many photos of the pair of them on a regualr basis. My project 365 posts clearly show the marked differences from before and after Burton’s first day of school, as there are a lot more photos taken now of them by themselves.
Of course it is still possible to capture the two of them together in a photo during the school week. Last week with it being the return to school and the routine that entails, I decided to cut television out of our daily schedules. It is not that the boys watch too much TV, as a rule they tend to watch the last hour before they go to bed, allowing me a chance to sit down with a cuppa , and, dare I say it, catch up on emails and social media!! Sometimes it does go on the mornings if we are up very early but as I say it is normally from 6pm.
However, I do not know why I felt compelled to not allow the boys to watch TV from Monday – Friday last week. I think I just wanted to get back to basics and enjoy spending time with them and see if it would improve thier behaviour as we have had a few issues over Christmas. I am not saying that television is bad for children, as most of what we watch is CBeebies or Peppa Pig related and I do not see any harm in those programmes for an hour – an hour and a half each day. I think after all the excesses of Christmas I wanted the boys to enjoy playing with their new toys, and for me to read their new books to them, things which we did not do much of during the festive break.
We had a great week of after school play including play dough fun, sweet wrapper craft, snap, beetle drive, board games and hide and seek! It was fun and I enjoyed the challenge of not letting them watch TV before bed, instead thinking of ways to occupy them myself. Interestingly, they did not ask to watch it either. I also feel that the boys appreciated the time we spent together playing. I intend to do this more often.
I took this photo of the two of them just as they started some play dough creating before I took all the pieces out. They both look so intent on their play and so calm and were getting along really nicely together and sharing nicely too, which as any parent of more than one child will know, this can be hard to achieve some days! It was also taken before the real mess was made of course – ha the table looked like WW3 had broken out an hour later lol!
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Kierna
What a lovely moment of time captured by you.
Jess @ Along Came Cherry
They do look very calm and thoughtful! Play Doh always starts out so well but by the end I always say I am going to chuck it all out. I never do though! x
lucy
Ahhh, thats a lovely photo Jenny. They look so content and focused on their play.
And I think it’s great that you went back to basics last week and switched the TV off. We have days sometimes where I refuse to turn it on and we listen to music and play together, and it’s always a refreshing change. x
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Seychellesmama
This is so lovely they totally look ready like you say!! Concentrating very hard…..play time is a serious business after all 🙂
Love their little table too!
Purplemum
A lovely picture. I’m very impressed that you gave up TV for a week, glad to hear you had such fun without it.
Katie @mummydaddyme
This is beautiful Jenny, they look so engrossed and it is lovely to see a photo of them playing together. I think it is great you went back to basics too, I think we need to turn the tv off more than we do. x
Karen
I love all the pictures I see of your gorgeous boys together but this one really is a beautiful photo. I can see why you chose it for thus linky xx
Mammasaurus
Ah I love this photo Jenny – so nice to see them playing so happily – and I always love photos of people where they aren’t looking at the camera, you kind of feel like you are spying on a tiny moment of their lives x
Mummy of Two
Sounds like great fun. It is too easy to sit in front of the tv and forget all the fun stuff isn’t it. Great photo of the two of them.
Lauren
Yay! I’m so glad you joined in. I’m going to try your no television experiment next week. It might encourage me to put in more effort too.
I love the photo, especially how Burton is looking over at Jenson xx
TheBoyandMe
That is such a beautiful photograph, you’re so lucky.
Jenny Paulin
thank you – you are too x
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