, Maria Sangiolo:
Impressions of a Week Without TV
It was with great interest that I read all the final posts of the 2nd Annual TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge participants: 28 final posts in all. There were really some remarkable similarities among the reports. It was quite fascinating to me!
Here is a summary of my general impressions from those final posts:
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Posted: May 28th, 2008 under Everything Else!, TV-Turnoff Week, TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge, TV-free kids, unplugging the family.
Comments: 5
TV-Turnoff Update From “Mom of 2″
In all the business of life, I have not yet gotten around to sharing the TV-Turnoff Week story of Mom of 2, a reader who participated in the TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge by email. Here is her wrap up (which she sent promptly on April 28th, sorry I am so late!):
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“We did really well [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Everything Else!, TV, TV-Turnoff Week, TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge, unplugging the family.
Comments: 1
Announcing the Giveaway Winners!
I promised prizes to two random participants who completed the 2nd Annual TV Turn-Off Week Blog Challenge. The prizes are the following:
A $10 Amazon Gift Certificate
A complete CD set of the Adventures of Billy Brown children’s audio plays (thanks very much to Jens Hewerer of Giddio.com for offering this one!)
I threw the names of [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Everything Else!, TV-Turnoff Week, TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge, contest.
Comments: 3
My Mindful Week
So it is time for me to report on MY Turnoff Week, I say “my,” not “our” because my kids didn’t know that anything different was going on. Without TV, they are used to just “doing their thing.” I do allow videos on occasion, but they rarely ever ask for them and never [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Everything Else!, TV-Turnoff Week, TV-Turnoff Week Blog Challenge, TV-free kids.
Comments: 2