In most effective children's programming, the content is enjoyable for children to watch. It's appropriate, humorous and educational. If you read Nurture Shock {a review from a previous post} then you would know that most television shows for children play out the conflict longer {20 mins} than the solution {5 mins}. Children's brains don't process information quick enough to understand that the problem has been solved, leaving them unsatisfied. It is very important that parents be involved and preview shows that children are watching.
However, when recently working with a child who has an extremely hard time playing pretend, this LBB came out with "doctor" pretend play, which I later discovered was imitating from the show Doc McStuffins. During this play time he gave a "diagnosis", asked for "tweezers" and belted out a song about having a "check up".No joke! After taking advantage of these new found play skills in this LBB and checking out all the toys we could find, I had a long conversation with dad who let me know that I needed to thank Little Miss Busy Doc McStuffins.
I thank Disney with all my heart to finally make a cute productive and engaging show that can teach a child appropriate play skills, which in this day and age is extremely hard to find. So if you have a Little Busy Bee that is dying for some TV time, find Doc McStuffins {10AM weekdays on the Disney Channel} and get comfy along side them because it is the sweetest show on right now.
The "Doc" is a little girl who mimics her mother's job as a doctor. But Little Busy Doc McStuffins is limited to patients so she uses her own toys, gives them a diagnosis and then treats them. Did I mention that it's the sweetest show ever?
Get to know her and let your LBB know that they can dream to be anything but that they can start with a little pretend play.
Play, Watch & Get to know Doc here!
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