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Great advice! We have a no TV rule in our house as well. (Except if someone is sick with a stomach bug.) Our weekend entertainment is Little House on the Prairie and popcorn. Computer time is for typing lessons and the occasional educational video or math games for the youngest. We even set a kitchen timer for “Wii Minutes” that can only be used on the weekend. I am just finishing up the book Six Ways To Keep The Little In Your Girl and will be moving on to the “boy book” next. 🙂
I love Little House! We need to add that to our repertoire!
–Gena
A friend just sent me this by email. –Gena
Hi Gena,
I saw your post. We have K-9 web filter , it’s free and blocks things all of the time. It has a big list of things you can choose to block or allow.
http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
Maybe this will help.
Great post! I’m thankful that for mow my kids are little enough to not have to worry about any of that. Well, I guess I just mean the safety part of it because we do have to constantly be away of how much TV time they get (PBS kids and certain DVDs we have) because my son LOVES watching screens. I don’t want to think about how much more difficult it is going to get as they get older! =)
Great Post. Great advice. This is an area I struggle in myself. With my daughter we homeschool but we have to be very flexible as I also work part time. My mom watches her while I work and no matter the Iimits set on tv it seems to go out the window when she is around. I know most of the time tv is just back ground noise but it annoys me that its on all the time. I shut it off the moment I get home. My daughter is really good about what she watches.. we don’t have cable so its the rabbit ears and netflix that she watches and most educational or sweet shows. She is not allowed on the computer, my kindle or her ipod unless I am home to monitor it. She will mostly go into educational sites on these so even though I do limit access to the electronics I am comfortable with her usage of these. Its the tv. Give my daughter a choice of playing or tv and she will pick playing something. I know it might get harder as she gets older for now the electronics don’t hold her attention too much.