Update on the "No TV" thing...

We DID survive the no TV day yesterday... well, my husband cheated. Once the kids went to bed he turned on the TV and we started watching Glen Beck. About 20 minutes into it I realized that I was feeling guilty about watching TV, plus my bowl of ice cream was finished. So I got up and checked my email and then announced that I was heading up stairs. Kenneth barely heard me. So I said to him, "See, this thing sucks your brains out too".

He came up right after me and we ended up turning on the TV again to watch the weather report.

The kids didn't mind so much about no TV day but they did ask a couple of times. Caroline wanted to watch a video she had borrowed from the library on bugs, Nicholas wanted to watch the new SpongeBob episode, and Alexandra wanted to watch a DVD "High School Musical" which she has seen a zillion times. Each time my answer was the same, "not today."

We will have another no TV day and I need to work on Kenneth about not watching after the kids go to bed.

A "NO TV" DAY...

Today is a "no TV" day in our house. The kids have recently gotten their brains sucked out by sitting in front of the TV for 3 and 4 hours at a time. I can't move them and when I ask them to do anything they literally don't move. They have become limp green beans.

So today I have declared it a "no TV" day in our house. In the three hours that my middle daughter has been awake she has asked me three times if she can watch TV. I tell her "N-O!". She isn't happy about it but hasn't whined yet either. Right now she is stringing beads on the back porch watching workmen take down part of a tree in our neighbors yard. Now isn't that better than getting your brain sucked out by SpongeBob Squarepants?