To recap:
- No TV on school nights.
- No TV in your room.
- No R-rated movies, period.
Cool. Thanks.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Thank You Very Much
Science has now proven what many of us parents already knew to be true about kids and their viewing habits as related to academic performance. (And after all, that's where my priorities lie, not indulging their desires to vegetate, much as I sympathize.) Check out the story on CNN.com.
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Hmmm . . . I'll admit that's a little difficult for me to follow.
We are really good at no TV in the room and no R-Rated anything. The TV at night thing isn't something that is terrible, but we could work on it definitely.
At one point in the article, one researcher said her kids get one hour of TV when they get home, then they have to do their homework. I think that could work for a lot of kids. The hard part is getting them to turn it off (especially the video games!!!!) once they've started. So, we just say "No goofing off until your schoolwork is done." In our case, that means #1 Son usually gets his homework done just before bedtime, and Pirate Boy gets an hour or so of computer game before dinner sometimes. I wouldn't give him even that much, but he's got straight A's so far.
Good to see a one-liner could spark such a good discussion.
Wow. no TV at all on school nights? We watched every night as a family when I was a kid - after homework. I had straight A's. But I was a bit of an overachiever. :)
But I didn't see R rated movies unless I had a sleepover ;)
Everything on CNN true, you say? Fascinating.
Well, I can't say my grades were the best, but I was the only kid my age that knew napalm smelled like victory.
Are you saying I don't check my sources, hmm? I'll kick you. This list is probably more of a guideline, but better safe than sorry. Just think, your grades could have been as good as mine. ;-}
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