I didn’t mention it, but we started a week of NO TV on Sunday and\u00c2\u00a0here we are on day 5 of our NO TV week, and it’s gone amazingly well.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that there was a big official thing last week or maybe even the week before, but we’re a bit behind the times, and I don’t think that it matters that I’m a week or so\u00c2\u00a0off.<\/p>\n
I’m surprised at how often the kids turn to the TV just as a default….it’s unreal.\u00c2\u00a0At first, I’d go in and\u00c2\u00a0have to remind them it seemed like every few seconds.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We’d just get it turned off and then another child would come it and turn it on again….\u00c2\u00a0It was\u00c2\u00a0almost robotic……come home from schoool and turn the TV on….get a snack and turn the TV on…..got to the washroom and turn the TV on…..come in from\u00c2\u00a0playing outside and turn the TV on…you get the picture.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure what to do going forward.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids have always had a pretty good imagination, and so it’s not like they were freaking out and had no idea what to do with themselves, but more that right now, they are having to come up with ideas and plans of “stuff” to do to entertain themselves.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think that it’s the planning – actually thinking about having to do something that was just getting them…..<\/p>\n
I am not sure if I should continue on with limited TV or even with NO TV for another week….but maybe let them watch a DVD once or twice…I don’t know…..I like the idea of it not being “the thing” they turn to because they don’t know what to do with themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Think child…..THINK!\u00c2\u00a0 Think of somthing fun to do, something creative, something that requires that you expend energy….<\/p>\n
I think the thing that has been most surprising to me has been ME.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that I’d probably watch TV in the evenings during our NO TV week because that’s what I do.<\/p>\n
‘Siah nurses to sleep at 8pm and I usually sit down and watch something and then once he’s alseep and in his bed, I’ll knit or crochet or do some digital scrapbooking or something like that with the TV on in the background.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just down time for me, and I don’t watch daytime television so that’s not an issue.<\/p>\n
Last night was the first time that I sat down and watched something, and it was the last half of a movie<\/a>, on my computer, in bed….and then I went to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been alone in the evenings\u00c2\u00a0 this week and have managed to keep myself fairly busy, but last night I was just tired.<\/p>\n Jon’s been working looooong hours 9-5 during the daytime and then from 8-11 or 12 in the evening….He’s just trying to get caught up.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems like a bunch of work has come in all at once, and he was feeling a bit overwhelmed, and so we decided to just do what we could to plow through a pile of it, BUT….that makes for very, VERY long days….hopefully by the end of this week, he’ll be caught up enough that we can go back to normal hours….or even just one or two night a week where he works in the evening.<\/p>\n So, this week has been a success (pretty much) and I can see us doing regular NO TV Weeks, or maybe even just picking set times for the kids to watch a show or movie….it’s actually been more peaceful in the house with the TV off…..go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t mention it, but we started a week of NO TV on Sunday and\u00c2\u00a0here we are on day 5 of our NO TV week, and it’s gone amazingly well.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that there was a big official thing last week or maybe even the week before, but we’re a bit behind the times, and … Continue reading “…and the NO TV week continues….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}