how does your SO feel about being tv/media free?

[counterGOPI]

ok dh and i decided that our kids will not watch tv etc until the age of 10 and even then not that much. he knows the reasons why etc BUT yet every time he watched dd, for a few mins or for a couple hours i come back to find them watching tv together
i have been somewhat lax about it like when dh is sick or in one of his depressions i don't make a fuss over her watching an hour or so oftv with him but its becoming more and more regular now and i don't like that at all. i liked it better when she didn't even know what a tv was i ask him why he does this and he has no excuse.
does anyone else deal with this? have any suggestions?

[smartair]

If you both decided this together you NEED him to get on board. My DH was the same way. Before we had kids, we BOTH decide to go Tv free. Once DS was born, I would repeatedly find him watching with baby in the bouncy chair. I finally had to get really crabby about it and just start turning off the tv. I know that sounds horrible but after asking several time nicely, and reminding him nicly, it was all that worked. I had to do it several times. I would just walk in, turn it off, and offer something else for the two of them to do together. He got the point. DS is now almost 3 and my DH thanks me repeatedly for getting him "off tv". I wish I could have been nicer about it. Your child and husband will benifit from it. Their relationship will be stronger if they interact (you know), just remind him. Good luck.

[mumkenna&lucas]

My dh is not on my level of thinking with this either, so I had the cable shut off I know that is not the answer for everyone and I will miss my HGTV, but between me wanting the kids to stay away from TV and our budget didn't have room for it anyway, it was the right thing to do right now. I am not saying that we will NEVER get it back but I am hoping that a little while without it will open dhs eyes a little more about the kids viewing..

[MCsMom]

We don't have a tv.

[weliveintheforest]

We dont have a tv but we still have this problem with the computer I do it occasionally but I can guarantee anytime I leave the house dh is going to put on some kind of video for cora so he can be on the computer too.

[melibee]

Originally Posted by MCsMom

We don't have a tv.

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[oneotamama]

Give him more sex and he won't miss the TV:

[KTinNYC]

I told DH long ago that we would get rid of our TV when I got pregnant. The year before we got married (1 month before I got pregnant ), I kinda pushed it off the ledge it called home (ummm, not for the first time), and voila, no more TV

DH is still a media addict- he knows more about sports and politics than anyone I know, even though he doesn't get to see any of it on TV. He is online all day at work, and listens to the radio incessantly, which I guess accounts for that.

That said, we do have a DVD player hooked up to a projector; too too often I find him watching DVDs with dd. My rule is that we only watch them when we're brushing her hair (the only way she will sit still for it) or rarely, when we watch a movie as a family. Then there are those occasional Saturday mornings when we need privacy...But he ends up letting her watch much longer than the hair brushing takes, which annoys me to no end. It does help that she is limited to Signing Time and dance (right now Alvin Ailey) DVDs, but still...