The Cheat
I admit it, I cheated. I used my computer fairly extensively the last two days of "No TV Week", not for work purposes. Also I slipped in a little web browsing during breaks at work, which was probably against the "No TV Week" rules too, but overall I did substantially cut down my internet time, even picking up a book and one quarter: "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink, and "Open Secrets" by Alice Munro, the latter of which I've only party finished. Max and Emmett did not cheat at all.
For the most part "No TV Week" was a breeze. You'll be disappointed to know, however, that we didn't actually get to do much of anything anyone suggested, but that's not a bad thing. The boys were content to play with their toys, and managed to fill up every day to the breaking point, being just as upset about having to end the fun and take a bath as ever. Which is not to say that they weren't anxious to get back to their video game time allotments today, and watching of Curious George in the morning before school. Yesterday there was plenty of video-game related talk from them, discussions of what they were going to play in their "afternoon time" and their "evening time".
We did do some of the suggested ideas, though. We never did the lady bug rocks, but there is still talk about them, so hopefully we'll fit that in in the near future. They enjoyed building their Lego Star Wars kit and playing with it - a "V-wing fighter" that Mom-Mom gave Max, and they "helped" me plant some grass, though we didn't finish that task, only managing to do one side of the walkway. Their grass-planting "help" was more akin to hindrance, but they had fun doing it. For them it was mostly the watering that was fun, which consisted of a little watering and a lot spraying the water around at things (including at one point, into the open front window) and each other. Yesterday was filled with a visit to the Honeygo playground, a visit to a TV/videogame-free-for-the-day Liz's house and a visit to the inner harbor with David S, including a ride on the water taxi to Fells Point and back, which Max declared, Fun, "until it got boring". They were both enthralled with the water taxi, actually, but Max wanted to get out at Fells Point and we didn't do that. He was a little scared on it, but I held him tight.
I should end this on some clever note, but this is it. It was a good, if somewhat exhausting, week.
For the most part "No TV Week" was a breeze. You'll be disappointed to know, however, that we didn't actually get to do much of anything anyone suggested, but that's not a bad thing. The boys were content to play with their toys, and managed to fill up every day to the breaking point, being just as upset about having to end the fun and take a bath as ever. Which is not to say that they weren't anxious to get back to their video game time allotments today, and watching of Curious George in the morning before school. Yesterday there was plenty of video-game related talk from them, discussions of what they were going to play in their "afternoon time" and their "evening time".
We did do some of the suggested ideas, though. We never did the lady bug rocks, but there is still talk about them, so hopefully we'll fit that in in the near future. They enjoyed building their Lego Star Wars kit and playing with it - a "V-wing fighter" that Mom-Mom gave Max, and they "helped" me plant some grass, though we didn't finish that task, only managing to do one side of the walkway. Their grass-planting "help" was more akin to hindrance, but they had fun doing it. For them it was mostly the watering that was fun, which consisted of a little watering and a lot spraying the water around at things (including at one point, into the open front window) and each other. Yesterday was filled with a visit to the Honeygo playground, a visit to a TV/videogame-free-for-the-day Liz's house and a visit to the inner harbor with David S, including a ride on the water taxi to Fells Point and back, which Max declared, Fun, "until it got boring". They were both enthralled with the water taxi, actually, but Max wanted to get out at Fells Point and we didn't do that. He was a little scared on it, but I held him tight.
I should end this on some clever note, but this is it. It was a good, if somewhat exhausting, week.
posted by public_sjj at 9:05:00 PM
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Well said.
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