You must read this book.
Really, put down the computer, go out to your local bookstore or library, and get this book. (Or don't put down the computer if you prefer to shop online.) Why are you still here? Go!
Ok, stupid jokes aside, I love this book. I saw it first a couple months ago at a local bookstore - it was being featured because it's a local author - but I didn't pick it up until I found it used yesterday, and now I'm kicking myself for waiting.
The full title is The Big Turnoff - Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid, and it's a really great read. In the style of Erma Bombeck and Anne Lammot, it's a funny and real account about her neuroses as a parent and her struggles to uphold ideals (and her struggles with the very idea of those ideals) while living life. It covers from -6months to when her son is about 8yo. There is some swearing and sexual references, but there's also talk about cosleeping, natural birth, full-term nursing, etc. It's particularly interesting and inspiring to me as a fellow TV addict, although one who did most of her detoxing before having children. It has references to the research and reasons to go TV free, but it is primarily a story of how that played out in this woman and her son's lives.
I highly highly recommend it, especially to those of us who are not TV free but are trying to raise our children to be so.
Really, put down the computer, go out to your local bookstore or library, and get this book. (Or don't put down the computer if you prefer to shop online.) Why are you still here? Go!
Ok, stupid jokes aside, I love this book. I saw it first a couple months ago at a local bookstore - it was being featured because it's a local author - but I didn't pick it up until I found it used yesterday, and now I'm kicking myself for waiting.
The full title is The Big Turnoff - Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid, and it's a really great read. In the style of Erma Bombeck and Anne Lammot, it's a funny and real account about her neuroses as a parent and her struggles to uphold ideals (and her struggles with the very idea of those ideals) while living life. It covers from -6months to when her son is about 8yo. There is some swearing and sexual references, but there's also talk about cosleeping, natural birth, full-term nursing, etc. It's particularly interesting and inspiring to me as a fellow TV addict, although one who did most of her detoxing before having children. It has references to the research and reasons to go TV free, but it is primarily a story of how that played out in this woman and her son's lives.
I highly highly recommend it, especially to those of us who are not TV free but are trying to raise our children to be so.
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