Cutting the Cord: Living TV-Free



Think you can’t pry your kids away from the television screen? Think again. Researchers say a growing number of families nationwide have either limited or eliminated TV watching in their homes. The result has been more family time, and more imaginative, musical and book-loving kids. Take a page from these Massachusetts families, who are thriving without TV.

By Elizabeth Ichizawa

“How many TVs do you have in your house?” a teacher asked her class during a



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lesson on graphs. Answers ranged from two to nine. But one student admitted to having zero, at which the kids murmured in horror and sympathy.

One boy gasped, “How do you live?”


That’s exactly what recreation specialist Barbara Brock wanted to know about families who watch almost no television. In a nationwide study, the first of its kind, Brock, a professor at Eastern Washington University, surveyed 280 families who kept weekly TV viewing to less than six hours.


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