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Strategies to reduce TV watching
- Hide the remote
- Put the TV in remote place
- Forbid TV watching during meal
- Re-establish family meal time
- Declare a church wide “eat together
as a family day”
- Remove TVs from children’s bedrooms
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- Declare TV Holidays by disconnecting cable
connection
- Point of decision: Post a picture on the
front of the TV Scree
- Self Contract: Hold youth to rewards and
consequences for breaking the TV Fas
- Post a list of 101 fun / free things to
do (alternatives to TV watching) on the Fridge
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See http://tv-turnoff.org/proof.htm
Refusal Skills for media abstinence
1. Just
say no. (Put down the remote)
2. Suggest
an alternative (101 free fun things to do)
3.
Walk away….a long way…10,000 steps a day!
“Turn off the TV week”
is not a CDC designated observance but the TV turnoff network
is based in Washington DC.
See http://tv-turnoff.org/proof.htm
for more information and resources
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