Comments on: Turn It Off http://justparentingadvice.com/turn-it-off/ Smart parents get help here. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: tom sheepandgoats http://justparentingadvice.com/turn-it-off/comment-page-1/#comment-648 tom sheepandgoats Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:53:06 +0000 http://justparentingadvice.com/?p=2152#comment-648 We used ‘TV tickets.’ They worked fairly well for us. You allot the kids so many TV tickets per week. Using them as they see fit, they would be able to watch 2 hours or so per week of commercial TV. (Public TV was unlimited. And we didn’t have cable….why torture them with unlimited channels they can’t watch?) I remember my son, at 6 or 7, telling someone how much he enjoyed TV….you learn so much. He actually thought that was its purpose. True, we found out years later that the kids had cheated around the edges a little….they’d found a way to counterfeit the tickets or whatever, but even so, it’s a policy I’d repeat in a heartbeat. That was before some modern media, though. It's more complex today. We used ‘TV tickets.’ They worked fairly well for us. You allot the kids so many TV tickets per week. Using them as they see fit, they would be able to watch 2 hours or so per week of commercial TV. (Public TV was unlimited. And we didn’t have cable….why torture them with unlimited channels they can’t watch?) I remember my son, at 6 or 7, telling someone how much he enjoyed TV….you learn so much. He actually thought that was its purpose. True, we found out years later that the kids had cheated around the edges a little….they’d found a way to counterfeit the tickets or whatever, but even so, it’s a policy I’d repeat in a heartbeat.

That was before some modern media, though. It’s more complex today.

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