So our TV is broken. and we are not artsy enough to create something for our son to play with. And educational toys are insanely expensive, to be honest. but the mother loves to read. She pretty much reads everything to our son (except those group chat on Whatsapp that seem never ending). So we came out with this idea. Let's just feed our son as much books as possible during this hard time when our TV is broken. Just read him anything everytime he is starting to act bored. And the result is amazing. He is becoming twice active, talkative and interactive. He is starting to imitate words and sounds he hears. He is starting to pointing the right object when we make the sound of a particular object. He is starting to communicate by telling us what he wants us to do. For example, he would point at the picture of the bear and he would clap his hands and dance. That means he wants us to sing, not to read. At the beginning he only interested with one book and asked us to read over and over. Now he would happily pick the book, drag it to us and will not stop making noise until we start reading. It doesn't matter if we are in the middle of cooking, cleaning, or poop-ing (I know, he'll regret this when he grow up). For us as a parent, of course this "new behavior" kind of surprise us. We used to let him watch the TV when we need to do something like preparing meals, cleaning the house and etc. We don't have maid, we leave alone, so we have to do everything by ourself. And sometimes it's just "easier and quicker" to do stuff when our baby is glued on TV. But seeing how much our son has developed since only two weeks without TV, we feel a bit guilty. We should have known this better. We were the one who decided to raise our children by ourselves (altho when we decided this, we didn't know how dirty laundry and keeping the house clean could take up to 85% of your time in a day). So now we are having second thought on fixing our TV. Maybe we will, because watching a TV with a hot chocolate in the middle of the night when your baby is asleep could save your marriage. But we definitely need to discipline ourselves on the TV schedule. By now our son doesn't remember about TV. We hope he won't. We hope he will always find amusement on words.