Another one of my New Years Resolutions was to have limited screen usage on Sundays. Which is also the day we have Sunday Family Dinners and Family Game night. In today's society we have have become so focused on all our screens, TVs, tablets, smart phones, computers etc. that we aren't interacting with each other as much. Often times you will find our family watching TV and yet all of us are also on our phones or tablets. Even if it's a show that we want to watch we are still doing something else.
We've become so distracted as a society as a whole. I went out to dinner with a bunch of girl friends the other night and at some point in the evening at least one of us was looking at their phone. Have you heard the idea of everyone putting their phones in the middle of the table and the first one to grab their phone has to pay for dinner? I think it's a great idea, and you can bet if I was in that group I would be the last to grab my phone, cause you know this mama doesn't wanna pay everyone's bill!
We have a rule in our house that the phone/tablet has to be off an hour before bedtime. That's even becoming difficult with a lot of our books being ebooks now. Man-Child really likes reading on the tablet he prefers it actually and he reads an hour before he goes to bed. So we've made that an exception.
On Sundays all of us are supposed to limit our usage. And well sometimes that is easier said than done, especially for Man-Child. So I made a list of 25 things he can do that don't require a screen. Some of them are things he enjoys doing and some of them are silly and I even threw in a few chores. Hey a Moms gotta do what a Moms gotta do!
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