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Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness
Making screen-time-reduction a vital and integral part of all plans that improve health, education and wellness while building stronger families and communities.
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Monday, June 1st
Children's cable nets get ready for summertime push.
With children off school
for the summer, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are about to
launch a number of special events, programming stunts and promotions
targeting young viewers, according to this report. In the past three years,
the number of viewers ages 2 to 14 has increased about 5%. Variety
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June 3, 2009
With thanks to Jeffrey Johnson who brought this new study to our
attention. The study confirms other studies about background
television and its impact.
Parents might know that sitting children in front of the television... More
Advocacy Campaign: When you go to the airport do you find it stressful? After going through security you arrive at the gate, only to find that the flight is delayed. You finally find a seat and what do you find? You find CNN overhead, telling you all the things you don't want to hear before getting on a plane, and providing information your children should not be exposed to. PLEASE go to our Programs section above and click on Screens A-Z (or click here) for sample letters asking airports and CNN parent company, Time Warner, to be a bit more understanding. Let us know when you send your letters so we can help let our legislators know.
Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness launches A Lifestyle for the 21st Century, a campaign to reduce screen-time and encourage real experiences with real people in real time.
Introduction of Take Back Our World, for Middle and High School Students, their teachers and their families.
Family Dinner Night: Have you picked your night? Each one of us is picking a night, that cannot change. Pick yours and after dinner, pull out a board game, a deck of cards or something else to do and make a night of it.
VISIT OUR BLOG: Tell your stories, comment on ours and via "Contact us" send us pictures of what you do while living a life with a little less screen-time and a lot more ACTION!
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21st Century Lifestyle
April Kickoff in Broome County, New York with the "B" Mets at Barnes &
Noble for more 2009 TURNOFF WEEK Pictures, CLICK HERE
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Contest in your school! (Link)
 
A special thanks to
PATCH for their
participation in
TURNOFF WEEK!
Turnoff Week Registration Form (Link)
Turnoff Week Alert and Printable Order Form (Link)
Thank you to the actors who participated in our Lincoln program in Westport,
Connecticut and Scarsdale/Yonkers, NY as part of our TURNOFF WEEK events.
Thanks to Barnes & Noble for hosting both readings and many other
activities over the week.
Readers include: (Left)Philip M. Gardiner, Gregior
Mouning, Myles MacVane, Seth Garben and Robert Kesten
Every now and then you read something and as you read it you cannot
stop shaking your head. For many it was "Bowling Alone," where we saw
on the page what we ourselves had been thinking. Now comes a book that makes
a great deal of sense, Lee Siegel, a writer, thinker and as the New
York Times Book Review puts it, "cultural provocateur." More...
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TURNOFF WEEK IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS!
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