Tune Into Your Family by Turning off the TV

This week is National TV Turnoff Week. What's that have to do with childcare? Plenty. Child care providers everywhere can start the ball rolling by eliminating any television watching during quiet times and talking with kids in their care about the week and get ideas flowing about what fun activities can be done instead. Next, they can help parents who may not know about this week by sending home a print-out by how the week is supposed to help turn on family fun through tuning in! Since the average American home has a TV on more more than eight hours every day, are we surprised more and more kids are becoming overweight couch potatoes?