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Tune out, turn off

April
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Much to the horror of my older two, I’m doing this next week. old-tv-set.jpg

But I bet they’ll be fine after the initial shock wears off. The horror, I’m sure, will be mine, when the best parenting crutch ever television goes dark for seven days.

So who’s planning to do the same? Let me know and we can document all the fun together!

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 5:32 pm by Katie Ryan O'Connor.
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7 Responses to “Tune out, turn off”

  1. Jenifer Scharpen April 19th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    I’m with you! Our kids can moan and groan together, but hopefully they’ll enjoy it, too. I’m sure they’d never admit it, though (at least not mine).

  2. Katie April 19th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Exactly!

  3. Steve C. April 20th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    un-american i say. to need a day to do this is ridiculous. what another valentines day?
    either you limit tv time or you dont. Its like smoking.

  4. Lisa April 20th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    I’m not up for the NO TV WEEK, but here is a low cost activity to entertain you and the kids when you are pulling your hair out (I anticipate this will occur on day 2).

    My kids enjoyed this….. gather pine cones from outside, spread peanut butter on them and then roll in bird feed. Hang on tree outside and wait for birds to show up. Added bonus, my fussy eater easily ate 4 Tbsp of peanut butter while we did this (and hopefully the bird food didn’t hurt him either). Anyway—- just thought I’d send an idea. You’ll need them!!!!!!

  5. Katie Ryan O'Connor April 21st, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Thanks Lisa! I will need all the help I can get. The kids will love this, especially if it induces this beautiful cardinal we saw the other day to come back.

  6. Heather April 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    We got rid of our t.v. years ago and we’re still surviving!
    My children love reading and imaginative play.
    I’m all for turning off the tv!

  7. Katie Ryan O'Connor April 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am

    Hi Heather—love your site! Thanks for dropping by!

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As most parents soon discover, feeding a family is rarely that easy, whether its nursing a fussy newborn or trying to get a hot meal into a squirming toddler (or attempting both at the same time.) And that's not even the days when work runs late, the main course burns, or your adventurous little sushi eater announces from now on she will only eat food that is pink.

As parents ourselves, we've been there, done that, even learned a few tricks along the way. And we're pretty sure so have you. Maybe together we can make eating together as a family -- gulp! -- fun again.

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Hema Easley Hema Easley has been a reporter for The Journal News since July 2002, first covering municipal government and then nonprofit agencies, women's issues and the South Asian and Muslim community in the Lower Hudson Valley. In her previous job, Hema was a correspondent for the Associated Press in South Asia. She lives with her husband and two sons in Orange County.
KatieKatie Ryan O'Connor, a Journal News editor and 35-year-old mother of three, never quite appreciated the work that went into feeding kids until she had to do it herself as a mother. If she had a food-and-kids philosophy it would be something like this: try your best to offer as much healthy food as possible, but sometimes fruits just have to be counted as vegetables and there are far worse things than chicken and spaghetti. Again.
TraceyTracey Princiotta, a 37-year-old mother of one, loves to cook, bake and eat, and is relieved that her son appears to be equally willing to chow down -- even if it's baby food and formula right now. Despite her husband's intense aversion to vegetables, she has high hopes of nurturing a true chowhound who will try everything at least once. And if all else fails, she's not above sneaking veggies into other foods.
Marcela Rojas Marcela Rojas has been a municipal reporter with The Journal News since January 2003. She is a native of Putnam County and grew up eating Peruvian food. She didn't realize until she was 13 that rice did not come with everyone's meal. After several years of living in Los Angeles -- where she grew a fondness for Thai food -- she returned to Putnam County where she now lives with her husband and daughter. Zyla (rhymes with Lilah) just turned 1 in March and, so far (her mother is pleased to note), loves to eat everything.
Swapna Venugopal Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, a Journal News reporter, started her career as a journalist in 1999 after graduating with a master's degree from New York University. Before joining the paper in 2006, Swapna worked as a municipal reporter for the Home News Tribune in New Jersey, and took a baby sabbatical to care for her two children, now ages 7 and 5. She has currently outsourced feeding her children and husband to her mother, who is visiting from India. Her friend and colleague Katie O'Connor, informs Swapna that she wouldn't mind being fed Indian food by her mother, too.
Randi Weiner Randi Weiner has been a reporter with The Journal News since 1989, having covered police, government and schools in Westchester and in Rockland. An Ohio native and 1976 graduate of Bowling Green State University, she worked for daily newspapers in Ohio and Michigan before moving east. She has tended bar and danced in a beledi troup and sat on the boards of two community theaters. She plays mandolin with the Shamrogues, ConnecticutÕs largest Irish band. Randi lives in Connecticut with her husband and has three children.

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