A (Relatively) Tech Free Summer (Post #2)

Take one backyard inexplicably filled with junk, add three teenage boys with no sense of self preservation and presto! One hand made obstacle course.... and impending hospital visit!

A (Relatively) Tech-Free Summer (Post #1)

As all modern day parents, we have a problem, we read about how other parents "fixed" it. Of course 99% of the time any idea I try does not work as seamlessly as portrayed in my reading. I have a feeling that this will be yet another example but I am determined to try! My children's souls are at stake (or it sure feels that way).

I am not alone, I am sure, in feeling like my children spend entirely too much time on their screens (phones, gaming devices, iPads, and actually much less on an actual TV) so I decided to drastically restrict their screen time this summer. Now "drastically" for this Silicon Valley family means cutting down to 4 hours a day which is still an embarrassing amount of sedentary time but, well, I am trying.

So here goes my chronicle of the activities the kids and their friends get into this summer. My house and sanity will most likely not be intact by August 20th when they return to school but that was sort of over-rated anyway. :)

Gina