A year or so ago we did no TV during the week for a month or so. I have mixed emotions about it. My husband was actually the one that had the hardest time with the no TV rule. The problem was we wound up Tivo'ing so many programs that we went on overload on the weekends.
When I can see that my kids are becoming couch potatoes I get out the TV jar. It is a jar of craft sticks (two colors). Each stick is worth 30 minutes of tv time and each kid has their own color. Some weeks they might get 5 hours of tv a week, the next week they might get an hour and the next week they might get 10. Educational programs do not count against their time. When the sticks are gone, the TV goes off.
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I can do everything through Him who gives me strength! Philippians 4:13
There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand: an eagle flying in the sky, a snake moving on a rock, a ship finding its way over the sea and a man and woman falling in love. Proverbs 30:18-19
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