Comments on: Another hot-button mom topic, like breast feeding and sleep training and homeschooling

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:45:14 +0000

We also are not participating in the no tv week. I don’t know how I would survive. Josh watches it in the morning, Eli watches the recorded Spongebob’s of the previous day when he gets home from Kindergarten, and Hannah, well if I would let her, would watch the Food Network (aka her food channel) all day. We also have a DVR and when we watch regular television, my kids constantly yell to us “fORWARD” to let us know the commercials or on, unfortunately, when you are watching live tv, you can’t forward them. As much as I hate to admit it, our tv is on most of the day. Like right now, it is on, but no one is really watching it…hmm, maybe I’ll turn it off.

By: kyran

kyran — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:41:01 +0000

It just gets worse. This weekend we moved the spare tv set to our bedroom–that which I said I would never do! How the mighty have fallen.

Our weather is gorgeous right now, and nothing on the tube can hold a candle to digging up the backyard. In a month or two when school is out and the southern heat is on, it will be a different story.

By: D

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:10:58 +0000

I think something that some, say, southerners maybe, don’t understand is: it rains here. A lot. Sometimes going outside, or feeling motivated and energetic in the midst of 25 gray, cloudy, rainy days in a row, is, well, not possible! Sometimes tv and movies turn into a cultural thing based off of climate! Maybe that’s why Seattle is such an artsy place; music and movies are the only things you can do when it rains months on end! It’s like an escape to a sunnier place! I find in the darkest months I tend to pick movies that are set in a hot place, or during the summer.

It’s just like exercise. All those women down in California can talk about getting off your ass to go running everyday. Which is great when the sun shines everyday. But when 6 am comes around and its 40 degrees and pouring, there is something about a nice tv morning and a cup of coffee that seems much more appealing than jogging in a poncho.

Yours truly, Ramble Queen

By: Elizabeth Grigg

Elizabeth Grigg — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:34:48 +0000

Right now, the big guy is on day 2 of an all-out TV ban. He gets to watch again tomorrow. What happened was:
- on Saturday, after 5 hours of cartoons, knew he was not supposed to watch any more and then snuck in, closed the door, and watched. A ban for the rest of Saturday and all day Sunday was decreed.
- on Sunday he returned from an outing and took advantage of the transition by sneaking in to watch. A ban for Monday was decreed.
- OK now its monday and the boy is a very big fat caterpillar. Seriously, though, it feels like I am being punished too! But the best thing about no tv is there are no fights regarding turning it off. Looking forward to getting back to normal, without losing valuable face.