My Sisters' addiction?

Question

My 8 yr old Sister is so addicted to T.V.! She really is getting bad

Grades in school i try to tell Her to start practicing with me but She always says No! I tell My Parents they said they would pay Me 50 bucks every week to tutor Her but they wont pay unless she is really in the tutoring! Please Help!!!

Answer 1

People, including kids, watch TV as a means to relax and fill time when there is nothing more interesting to do. To get her off the TV, you should be finding things that are more interesting, such as baking together, going for walks, maybe playing with her favorite toys etc. I'd start by offering something really FUN for HER to do when she gets home from school, and then just ask to hear about her day. Ask if you can see what she's working on from school, and if she says no, let it go for the day. It will take a few days for her to see she can trust you (ie you want to help without lecturing or being mean) and that you will help her. Still offer the time together without strings attached. It will come.

Addiction is a strong word to use, and when applied to TV it minimizes the life-altering way that drugs and alcohol affect a person.

And as someone else mentioned, it's really not your job to get your sister to learn, although I appreciate your willingness to do so.

Answer 2

Make tutoring fun, don't say want to do your homework say want to go have some fun together. Then don't lie really do have fun. Try to find a fun way to study, she is 8 she might like dress up clothes for history, you could use M&M's for math, and eat some of them at the end.  While doing boring stuff that you cannot find a creative way to make more interesting talk to her about what is going on with school.  Then even when you are not doing homework with her be nice to her. You an your sister can be great friends, once your friends like that she will look up to you and enjoy the time with you.

Also talk to your parents about  stepping down, and not letting her watch as much TV as she wants too.

Answer 3

Suggest your parents get rid of your tv. There are a lot of very bad things on the air. We are so influenced by all that touches our lives. We need to carefully consider what we allow to come into our minds.

Answer 4

It's nice that you want to help her, but you won't be able to get anywhere with her until your parents step in, put their foot down and act like parents. It's not your job to make your sister stop watching tv and get tutoring--it's your parents.

Answer 5

Start be getting her addicted to GOOD TV.

Turner Classic Movies, PBS, Discovery, Science, History.

Answer 6

She is 8, who runs the show?

Have your parents unplug the TV, or removing it from he house.

Simple solution, your parents need to be the parents; it's nice you want to help your sister, however getting paid for it, seems like your parents are again passing the responsibility for what they need to do to someone else, sorry that would be a no go.

Answer 7

It isnt your job to homeschool your sister or to control her television habits.  Where are your parents and why arent they teaching your sister, why arent they in charge?

Answer 8

Apparently watching telly has an effect on the physiology of the human brain (it's supposed to alter your brainwaves, for instance, enabling it to relax people while they're watching it) so, if your kid sister has been watching it a lot for a long time, she probably would find it difficult to stop or cut down (even if she wanted to!).

Not too sure what you can do other than trying to make it more fun for her to hang out with you than be stuck in front of the box! If she's anything like my younger sisters, letting her hang out with you and your mates when you're doing fun stuff together *might* lure her away from the box but, at her age, I doubt you'll suddenly do it simply by offering her the opportunity to replace the telly with schoolbooks and additional lessons!!

Other than that, your parents could try limiting the amount of time she is allowed to spend watching telly but the limits'd probably have to apply to everyone in the family if they're going to look 'fair'.

Also you, your mum and dad, any other siblings and your family dog should probably all be prepared for some MEGA-tantrums from your little sister if she is no longer allowed to spend so much time just vegetating away in front of the telly. As I said it can have a physical effect on the brain's activity so don't think cutting her off from the source of those brainwave-altering emissions is going to be easy, in the short term, for you or her!  

i suppose the one other thing you could do is guide her towards watching some educational tv programmes and not just junk all the time.

Answer 9

Was that supposed to be English? There's no need to capitalize every other word.