Day 25: Family Media Detox

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[MintyHippo1980]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIdWcg6oQE]

One of the questions that we are frequently asked is, "What's next, after the 30 days?" In other words, what will have changed?

If you've followed the blog, you already know that we are no longer a television household. Sometime in week two we decided to rid our home of both TV's. One of them, however, will be housed next door at our church. With that in mind, we have agreed that when times arise when we, as a family, desire to watch a video together, we can do so over there (The idea being that we will have made it a less convenient undertaking). I am also proposing that the children will each get one hour per day of recreational screen time all their own (computer/video game/iPod).

As with all such rules in a family of this size, the big issue is consistent enforcement. We would love to hear from you with your thoughts and suggestions!

[MintyHippo1980]

Now that the glamour of caring about Haiti has faded, now that "We Are The World" has been re-recorded and Sean Penn has withdrawn to wait for the next disaster to play hero in, it's good to know that Christians are still there, doing the hard things....

[aknkate]

My husband and I gave up all local and paid TV 3 years ago. We have a TV and get old, really old movies, 1960 or before from our library. We have found some PBS and BBC mystery series that we like very much at Costco. But all in all we don’t miss any of the rude, vulgar, degrading and destructive stuff that comes out of the US at all. Fox was hard to give up but that was the very thing that promoted the removal of cable to begin with. Every night the drama, the what if’s and the will they’s that were forgotten the next day because there was new what if’s and will they’s to be worried about. We couldn’t take any more and now we spend our evenings being together and reading for our pleasure.