Hello, my sister had the same problem she had two living rooms so from the main she removed the tv but used tapes like story and nursery rhymes they get on your nerves after a while..lol. And at the weekends when the children were allowed to stop up later she would have a family movie night. The tapes are a great way fror developing speech and you can interact with your child at the same time as you can sing along while painting, drawing, playing, dress-up etc. And when your rushed off your feet with no time to persuade her to co-operate you can take the rhymes with you in the car if needs be..lol you'll be singing twinckle twinckle in your sleep!!

Jo xx

What I did at that age was start teaching them about clocks. I would 4 pics of clocks. One said 7.00 and the other said 9.00, these had a big "MORNING" above them. Then there were another 2 that had 2.00 and 4.00. These had a big "AFTERNOON" above them. I explained to them that these were the only times the TV could go on. They had to then look at the clock in the lounge and if it said the same, they could have it on.

Otherwise switch it off and go outside.

Leisa

Id be unplugging the tv and forcing her to really pick another activity considering nothing else is on...not literally force her.

Maybe you could get some educational dvds or videos with a cartoon style theme,while she is watching playschool or elmo or something she is learning too.Maybe you get try activities that are based on the character from her fav cartoons ...like buy elmo blocks or dora the explorer playdough,books too.

Hope this has helped'