Fighting the Tube

 

Summer is in full swing. We all make summer plans, and have great intentions, but It’s often hard to fight the tube. A large number of children spend hours a day in front of the TV. It’s easy as parents to use it as a babysitter. I was talking with someone about this the other day and their question to me `was, “If they aren’t watching TV, what do you do with them?” That’s a great question. I thought I would make a list of a few things that could be done. (Here you go this is for you! You know who you are LOL!)

• Send them outside to ride their bikes
• Teach them to ride their bikes without training wheels
• Plan a daily craft
• Participate in Library Activities
• Sign them up for reading programs. Then they will have to make time to read!
• Read aloud to them 20 minutes a day
• Go to the Park
• Visit the local Art Museum 
• Plan play dates
• Go on vacation
• Go hiking
• Blow bubbles
• Set up play centers at home
• Do science experiments
• Send them to camp
• Vacation Bible School
• Plant a Garden
• Make your children responsible for tending the garden
• Get a dog, and get him trained
• Get a pet of any kind, and teach your children to care for it
• Play board games
• Put together a puzzle as a family
• Let them help you cook
• Include them in chore time
• Put on a play
• Teach them to play the piano
• Sports
• Send them outside for free play
• Go to church events
• Do those unit studies you wanted to do but never had time for
• Let them color
• Let them paint
• Have devotion time
• Tour your city like you are a visitor
• Send them to Grandma :)
• Create an incentive program where the kids have to earn tube time. (make it fun)
• Last but not least, JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!

Confession: I was able to write this post because, my kids were watching Umi Zoomi. LOL!!!