When I was a little I remember watching TV with my little brothers one sunny day in summer. My mom got home from work, saw us inside on a beautiful sunny summer day watching TV. She walked over unplugged the TV and walked away with it. That was that. The next year, she simply unplugged the TV after school got out and said you know the rules. Before long she didn’t have to do anything, we knew there was no TV in the summer. Do you know what I remember about my summers growing up? Certainly not all the TV I watched. I remember the forts, the games, biking, camping, hiking, and so much more.
This year, my two older boys turned 7 and 5. Late in April, I decided. This is the summer. They’re old enough to play in the yard without my constant supervision. This is the summer of NO TV. I made the announcement at the dinner table. Three boys (my husband and the two older boys) exclaimed “WHAT?” Followed by my husband saying, “that’s not going to last.” Thanks for the vow of confidence, by the way, honey. Anyway, I laid out the ground rules. There would be no TV from the last day of school until the first day of school. There would be one night
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a week that would be family movie night in which the boys could pick one movie and have popcorn. Also, the rule does not extend to grandparent’s houses. (What happens at
Gramma’s stays at Gramma’s right?)
Summer began. It was hard at first, but I kept reminding them about the rule and eventually, they stopped asking. Did you hear that? THEY STOPPED ASKING. It’s August, just under two weeks before the first day of school. My children no longer wake up and run upstairs to turn on the TV. They don’t even ask to watch a show in the afternoon.