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With entertaining and educational apps, creative games, and a diverse app store, Sony Android TV becomes an invaluable assistant for parents during long holidays.
Why not learn while playing with Sony Android TV?
With entertaining and educational apps, creative games, and a diverse app store, Sony Android TV becomes an invaluable assistant for parents during long holidays.
It can be said that the 2020 Lunar New Year is the longest holiday in history for students from kindergarten to university. But unlike other holidays, during these days, most students stay at home, unable to travel, watch movies, or gather in crowded places. Therefore, the TV is an indispensable companion, especially for children in the city. Parents cannot stay at home to monitor regularly, so how can this 'companion' become a 'partner in progress', bringing many beneficial things to children? Below are some secrets:
Control internet and TV content
To prevent children from accessing unwanted television channels and using the internet unsupervised, you can lock down these features. On Sony's Android TV lineup, the Japanese manufacturer allows activating a child lock mode, including locking television channels, internet access, and input ports - preventing the use of peripherals such as CD players and gaming consoles.
However, completely blocking internet connectivity also limits the learning and playing 'space' for children, so users can individually lock each application. This setting is available on Sony's Android TV models, under Security & Restrictions. It is noted that not all TVs support the feature of individually locking each application.
More importantly, parents should communicate and share with their children about the benefits as well as the harms of watching TV to build self-awareness. Encourage children to stop watching after about 45 minutes continuously, then stand up, move around, and focus their eyes on distant objects to regulate vision. If children are being cared for by grandparents or caregivers, communicate to better supervise rather than relying solely on TV settings.
Guiding Children Towards Beneficial Content
YouTube is one of the most popular content repositories in Vietnam, but for children, you should only allow the use of YouTube Kids - an app designed specifically for them. With this app, content is more carefully curated, and recommended videos are suitable for their age group.
Some games playable on the Sony PlayStation 4 are suitable for children, which parents can consider such as Minecraft - a creative game where children can build any structure, Concrete Genie - an adventure game with colorful storytelling, easy to play, while helping children learn English, or Dragon Quest Builder 2 - an open-world game, customizable storyline, with adorable characters, suitable for children to foster curiosity, exploration, and language learning.
Moreover, on Sony Android TV, children can easily search for their favorite content, information, or knowledge using voice search through the Google Assistant. Currently, all Sony Android TVs from 2017, 2018, and 2019 are integrated with Google Assistant (UK and US versions), with the release date for the Vietnamese version to be announced later.
Watch - play together with kids
Smart TVs have features to limit and control children's usage, but the best solution is still for parents to spend time watching and playing with their children. Users can download and guide children to learn, reinforce knowledge through math, English learning apps, puzzles, or fun and educational games to play with their children. Some suggestions include Crash Team Racing, a colorful and cute racing game that can be played by 4 people. Or FIFA20 game series on PlayStation - connecting father and son through the king sport and love for soccer.
During idle evenings or weekends, the whole family can explore the app store with thousands of rich content from YouTube, Google Movies, Spotify, Fim+, Clip TV, FPT Play, VTV Go, Zing MP3, NhacCuaTui,... These will be precious moments for families to bond and spend quality time together.
It can be seen that, although many people believe that using TVs, phones, or tablets is not good for children, the reality cannot deny the benefits that these electronic devices bring, especially when children are restricted from going out like now. Therefore, what parents need to do is to manage and guide their children to use them properly, so that they can both play and learn, supplement their knowledge, and have enjoyable entertainment moments.
