Friday, January 21, 2011

Unplug yourself & your children to live life again

Georgina Guedes

Susan Maushart, a New York mother has released a book called TheTV Winter of our Disconnect in which she details the six months that she and her family disconnected from anything with a screen. You heard right...she turned off all televisions, computers, internet access and cellphones.

Her children adjusted to “The Experiment” with varying degrees of trauma. By the end of the six months, her son opted to stay unplugged, because he had discovered the saxophone. Her other two have learnt to love outmoded pleasures like board games and nature walks, and her older daughter’s grades had improved.  Read more…

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