http://planetkidonline.com/2010/02/01/plugged-in-kids-monday-mention/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plugged-in-kids-monday-mention Drop-In / Flexible Child Care Fri, 13 May 2011 08:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://planetkidonline.com/2010/02/01/plugged-in-kids-monday-mention/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 Jacki Donaldson Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:46:24 +0000 http://planetkidonline.com/?p=3236#comment-2999 Tom, thanks so much for your great comment. I'll share this idea in a post one day soon! Tom, thanks so much for your great comment. I’ll share this idea in a post one day soon!

]]> http://planetkidonline.com/2010/02/01/plugged-in-kids-monday-mention/comment-page-1/#comment-2997 tom sheepandgoats Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:35:15 +0000 http://planetkidonline.com/?p=3236#comment-2997 We used 'TV tickets.' They worked fairly well for us. You allot the kids so many TV tickets per week. Using them as they see fit, they would be able to watch 2 hours or so per week of commercial TV. (Public TV was unlimited. And we didn’t have cable….why torture them with unlimited channels they can’t watch?) I remember my son, at 6 or 7, telling someone how much he enjoyed TV….you learn so much. He actually thought that was its purpose. True, we found out years later that the kids had cheated around the edges a little….they’d found a way to counterfeit the tickets or whatever, but even so, it’s a policy I’d repeat in a heartbeat. We used ‘TV tickets.’ They worked fairly well for us. You allot the kids so many TV tickets per week. Using them as they see fit, they would be able to watch 2 hours or so per week of commercial TV. (Public TV was unlimited. And we didn’t have cable….why torture them with unlimited channels they can’t watch?) I remember my son, at 6 or 7, telling someone how much he enjoyed TV….you learn so much. He actually thought that was its purpose. True, we found out years later that the kids had cheated around the edges a little….they’d found a way to counterfeit the tickets or whatever, but even so, it’s a policy I’d repeat in a heartbeat.

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