https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-reduce-screen-time/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-reduce-screen-time/#comment-20765 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:12 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=78#comment-20765 We sat down just after Christmas and had a family discussion about our t.v. We all decided that we didn’t need and couldn’t stand the television anymore and worked out alternate ways of dealing with it. One of the ways for my husband to deal with it was to take the monthly Blockbuster movies by mail route and to catch up on all the reading he had meant to do for a long time but never had seemed to get around to. One daughter still watches a favorite show by downloading it to her IPod and I increased her allowance to compensate. Other shows come out on the internet for viewing within a few days of the original and Blockbuster has seasons for rent at the end of the season if we want. We use the newspaper, radio, and the internet for news updates and for the first time ever, I have been able to get the kids to finish all their reading assignments in a timely manner with no excuses. Add to this that I still save $20 per month even paying for the IPod downloads, newspaper, and Blockbuster and that all the yardwork and household needs are being taken care of with everyone working together and family reading and activities have increased. We do not miss the television!

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