National Turn Off the TV Week!!!!

“Television… Is an anti-experience and an anti-knowledge machine because it separates individuals from themselves and from the environment and makes them believe they are living while they are only observing passively what other people decide to make them see.” –Dr. Silvana Montanaro, MD, Psychiartist

“The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents… Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into adults.” – Urie Bronfenbrenner, Professor at Cornell University

Facts about TV:
• Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 38.5
• Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
• Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours
• Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500
• Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66

Ideas of things to do:
1. Play a game
2. Read a book, magazine or newspaper silently or aloud
3. Put a puzzle together
4. Visit the library.
5. Go to a park
6. Go on a walk or run
7. Paint a picture
8. Attend a high school sporting event
9. Go to a play
10. Plant a flower
11. Cook a meal with your parent
12. Go bird watching
13. Have a picnic
14. Play with your pet
15. Take a nature walk
16. Write a letter to someone
17. Call a relative in another state or city
18. Learn some new riddles or jokes.
19. Bake a cake or cookies
20. Go fishing

Miss Iehl is challenging ALL of you to take part in National Turn off the TV Week!!!
Record what you did instead of watching TV for each day of the week.
Ask your parent sign each day you “turned off the TV”.
At the end of the week I will check for those of you who successfully “turned off the TV”!!!