Unplug Your Kids…And Yourself!

Okay, so now spring is really here…

Shorts and T-shirts (in 50 degree weather!…they’re crazy.)

Ice pops in trees…

Catching bugs…

And finding my Tupperware at the park…

And this weather couldn’t have come at a better time!  Tomorrow (I’m writing this late Sunday night) marks the beginning of  National TV Turnoff Week, and were shuttin’ everything down here at the Horsman house.  Yes, even our computer… for the entire week.  I’m still debating whether I should check my e-mail midweek or not, but, honestly, I can’t remember the last time I got a really urgent e-mail.  And Daddy’s not even allowed to use his iPhone at home. (Yes, Dave has an iPhone.  What a brat, eh?) 

I don’t like that my kids are growing up in a world that, ever-increasingly, if you’re not staring at a TV, playing a video game or tooling around on the internet, there’s “nothing to do.”  I really think that creativity and imagination can be like muscles that don’t get used…if you don’t exercise them, they’ll wither up and get weak!  As a parent, I want to stregnthen my children’s creativity and imagination “muscles” and that’s why I enforce our montly TV Turnoff weeks.  It may not get me the popular vote, but one day they’ll thank me.  Hopefully. 

See you all next week.  And I challenge you… “Turn off the TV.  Turn on life!”