Screen-free week is almost here!During screen-free week people will turn OFF TV, video and mobile games, and other screens they use for entertainment, and turn ON the world around them!
Will you join them this year?
Many of us might think having a screen-free week impossible in today's world with email and cell phones used heavily for communication and productivity.
However, screen-free week focuses on screens being used for entertainment.
So you are able to use the computer at work (for work related purposes;) and check you home emails, etc. For many of us, getting on our home computer can be a time warp, especially if we click on recommendations from Pinterest or open that funny or inspirational video from a friend. Be cognizant this week about time spent this way and set a 15 minute limit to read and respond to personal emails. Think before you text and pick up the phone and have a good old-fashioned conversation instead.
For children, limiting media entertainment affords them the time and opportunity to imagine, learn, try new things, invent, engage in conversations and strengthen relationships. Limiting media entertainment can really help expand your child's overall potential. Visit screenfree.org for some great ideas on what to do without media entertainment (in case you forgot). They have a list of 101 screen-free activities and a family guide to a screen-free week.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends only 1-2 hours per day of entertainment media for children and teens, with the caveat that the content should be high in quality. Television and other entertainment media should be avoided all together for children under two years of age.
If you aren't quite ready to take the pledge this year, make a commitment instead to limit media to 1-2 hours a day for your children over age 2 and ensure it is high quality content.
Check back with us in a week. We'll be posting in the meantime, but it will all be waiting here for you when you get back:)
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