Event: Turnoff Week
Date: Spring: third week in April; fall: third week in September
Location: Your home
Organizer: Center for Screen-time Awareness
What to do: Turn off, or reduce the use of, entertainment screens including televisions, handheld video games, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones. The goal is not to banish screens from your home forever, but to take a break and see how it feels and how it works to find other, more active things to do instead. You might then use this week to kick off some new screen time rules or habits that will help lower your family's daily intake of television and other media (and swap in more activity instead).
For more information: Center for Screen-time Awareness Turnoff Week site. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood observes "Screen-Free Week" at the same time, and provides resources.
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