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]]> By: christine http://christinekane.com/blog/how-to-break-up-with-your-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-7409 christine Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:38:52 +0000 http://christinekane.com/?p=106#comment-7409 Hi Susie! Yep, I'm sure about the llama! Have fun letting go of the TV! Barb, be sure to update us all on how it goes! Great ideas and thoughts... Hey Mags! Wow! that's great. I'm glad to read about these little progress moments! ChickiePam, Thanks for the opposite side of the coin...! Great stuff! Hi Susie! Yep, I’m sure about the llama! Have fun letting go of the TV!

Barb, be sure to update us all on how it goes! Great ideas and thoughts…

Hey Mags! Wow! that’s great. I’m glad to read about these little progress moments!

ChickiePam, Thanks for the opposite side of the coin…! Great stuff!

]]> By: ChickiePam http://christinekane.com/blog/how-to-break-up-with-your-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-7385 ChickiePam Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:49:40 +0000 http://christinekane.com/?p=106#comment-7385 Hi ya'll, So here is the opposite perspective. I don't have a TV addiction. I used to watch Dallas and Falcon Crest in the 80's, and always enjoyed the Star Trek shows. I became a mother in 1988 and all of that changed! Mostly I just stay too busy to have time to watch TV. I'm not sure that's such a good thing, though....... I've spent years without cable TV. After I divorced, I just couldn't afford it. We watch videos some. My kids are both theater buffs, and have been known to be in school as well as local productions. Rehearsal time can be lengthy and my son is frequently involved is the background techie stuff as well...set building, sound, lighting...anything just to be at the theater! My son is off for his first year in college now, which has lightened my chauffeur load a lot. My almost-12-year-old daughter has gymnastic team practice 3 nights a week. Once teh competitive season is over in December, I'll cut her back to 2 nights per week. And then there's horse back riding lessons every other week, which I support because she will be able to ride horses at ninety....gymnastics is more unlikely at ninety. And then there are piano lessons on the way to the gym once a week. Then there are the plays and school projects that she participates in, places she wants to go to and things she wants to do. In the summer, I stay outside working in my garden, doing projects around my little farm. I have chickens and have thought of having llamas! So I don't watch much TV in the summer, although my kids watch more. In the winter, I crochet and tend to watch TV while doing so. I don't intend to stop doing it. I am doing something creative that I love to do. It's my "art". I don't write or draw or paint (except for the occasional wall here and there). I have the opposite problem...too much to do so I don't have time to watch TV, clean my house, get bored, rest, etc. I need the down time and enjoy the creative expression. I have to plan time for ME! or I would just get lost. When my daughter is at the gym, I take my dog with me and he gets a walk downtown, and then I either work (my office is a few blocks away and I'm self-employed, so I please me....or my bank account) or I sit at the gym, visit with the other gym rat mothers and crochet. So anyone who is having trouble can contact me and I'll loan them my daughter! So now you see the opposite side of the coin. Pam Hi ya’ll,
So here is the opposite perspective. I don’t have a TV addiction. I used to watch Dallas and Falcon Crest in the 80’s, and always enjoyed the Star Trek shows. I became a mother in 1988 and all of that changed! Mostly I just stay too busy to have time to watch TV. I’m not sure that’s such a good thing, though…….

I’ve spent years without cable TV. After I divorced, I just couldn’t afford it. We watch videos some. My kids are both theater buffs, and have been known to be in school as well as local productions. Rehearsal time can be lengthy and my son is frequently involved is the background techie stuff as well…set building, sound, lighting…anything just to be at the theater! My son is off for his first year in college now, which has lightened my chauffeur load a lot.

My almost-12-year-old daughter has gymnastic team practice 3 nights a week. Once teh competitive season is over in December, I’ll cut her back to 2 nights per week. And then there’s horse back riding lessons every other week, which I support because she will be able to ride horses at ninety….gymnastics is more unlikely at ninety. And then there are piano lessons on the way to the gym once a week. Then there are the plays and school projects that she participates in, places she wants to go to and things she wants to do.

In the summer, I stay outside working in my garden, doing projects around my little farm. I have chickens and have thought of having llamas! So I don’t watch much TV in the summer, although my kids watch more.

In the winter, I crochet and tend to watch TV while doing so. I don’t intend to stop doing it. I am doing something creative that I love to do. It’s my “art”. I don’t write or draw or paint (except for the occasional wall here and there). I have the opposite problem…too much to do so I don’t have time to watch TV, clean my house, get bored, rest, etc. I need the down time and enjoy the creative expression. I have to plan time for ME! or I would just get lost. When my daughter is at the gym, I take my dog with me and he gets a walk downtown, and then I either work (my office is a few blocks away and I’m self-employed, so I please me….or my bank account) or I sit at the gym, visit with the other gym rat mothers and crochet. So anyone who is having trouble can contact me and I’ll loan them my daughter!

So now you see the opposite side of the coin.
Pam

]]> By: Mags http://christinekane.com/blog/how-to-break-up-with-your-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-7322 Mags Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:40:33 +0000 http://christinekane.com/?p=106#comment-7322 Hi again - Just thought I'd let you know that I've been developing a new relationship with my TV since I last posted! I haven't yet been able to keep it off for a whole night, but I have been doing what Dblwyo called "conscious selection", ie only switching the TV on for shows that I really want to watch and then switching it off again when they're done. It's made me much more aware though of my choices - do I really want to watch this show, is it worth switching the TV on for? And, the bonus is that I also haven't fallen asleep on the couch in front of the TV like I'm prone to do when it is droning on in the background! I realised this morning that this "conscious selection" is what my grandparents used to do (except for when there was cricket on - then my grandfather would watch the TV and listen to the radio at the same time for as long as the match took (5 days if it's a test match) so as not to miss anything!). My mom, however, used to keep the TV on all the time (still does) - a reaction to not being allowed to watch lots of TV when she was younger?! Now, I'm going back to my grandparents' example... wonder what my kids (who have yet to be) will end up doing one day?! Hi again – Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve been developing a new relationship with my TV since I last posted! I haven’t yet been able to keep it off for a whole night, but I have been doing what Dblwyo called “conscious selection”, ie only switching the TV on for shows that I really want to watch and then switching it off again when they’re done. It’s made me much more aware though of my choices – do I really want to watch this show, is it worth switching the TV on for? And, the bonus is that I also haven’t fallen asleep on the couch in front of the TV like I’m prone to do when it is droning on in the background!

I realised this morning that this “conscious selection” is what my grandparents used to do (except for when there was cricket on – then my grandfather would watch the TV and listen to the radio at the same time for as long as the match took (5 days if it’s a test match) so as not to miss anything!). My mom, however, used to keep the TV on all the time (still does) – a reaction to not being allowed to watch lots of TV when she was younger?! Now, I’m going back to my grandparents’ example… wonder what my kids (who have yet to be) will end up doing one day?!

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