Our children don’t watch TV.  That is, they don’t watch TV unless it’s football season and our well-hidden TV comes to life whenever there is a game on… 
I don’t really like to talk too much about raising our kids mainly TV free.  Generally, people feel either judged by it (Oh, you are saying that I’m a bad parent because I let my kid watch Sesame Street?) or they feel bad for my children (So you have never seen Disney’s …

Last year, I participated fully in Screen-Free Week – not using the computer or TV at all for 7 whole days.  This year, I decided to take a more realistic view of things.
With a preschool to run, a new blog to promote, lessons to plan, and bills to pay, completely eliminating screens just wasn’t going to happen.  I decide to allot myself 30 minutes per day of computer usage after the boys were in bed.  One thing I learned this …