TV during the school week for students?

abasket
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:32:18 +0000

We have always had the rule no video games during the school week - only Friday nights thru Sunday nights.

As far as TV, my kids enjoy a little wind down down right after school (on the occasion that they are actually home right after school and don’t have student council, sports or whatever). My youngest (12) usually has a snack and watches 1/2 hour of Full House or something. My son (17) will grab a snack and put ESPN on - usually falls asleep for 1/2 hour instead of watching, but then wakes up refreshed and ready to tackle work.

To me, the biggest distraction from homework for my son is text messages coming in. He agreed last year that is was distracting him and learned to literally put his phone aside when he was doing heavy duty studying.