Today Begins PC-Turnoff Week 2005!
Today is the day - the start of PC-Turnoff Week 2005! We've had a very positive response to this event leading up to this point. Of the millions we've reached, I hope many are participating by encouraging their children to stay off the computer this week, up to and including August 7th.
Please visit our forum and tell us about your experiences during the week. Of course, that would be the parents visiting this week, not the kids since they'll be off the computer! :-) However, after the week is over, we would love to hear from the kids that participated and have them tell us about their week as well.
So here's to a good, healthy, balanced experience during PC-Turnoff Week 2005.
Please visit our forum and tell us about your experiences during the week. Of course, that would be the parents visiting this week, not the kids since they'll be off the computer! :-) However, after the week is over, we would love to hear from the kids that participated and have them tell us about their week as well.
So here's to a good, healthy, balanced experience during PC-Turnoff Week 2005.
10 Comments:
If "pc turnoff week" starts today, why is your server still on? You should practice what you preach, guys.
We do practice what we preach. PC-Turnoff is about negative effects on children caused by excessive computer use, so our kids are off the computer for the week!
This seems really misguided. "Give your kids the gift of boredom"? Wouldn't it be better to engage their minds with some family board games or sharing a book? Or better yet, take them outside and teach them kite making or a sport.
Having your kids stare into space for 30 minutes seems to do more to encourage them to be sedentary than the PC does!
I had to leave my PC on in order to read your crap!!!
I would feel to much like a hypocrite to enforce this!
i think it's a good idea! my little sister is only 12 and she spends hours a day on the computer. if she can't sign on to her instant messanger, she flips. i think i'll do this too, even though i'm not a child. it's a nice day and i should be out in the pool anyway!
perhaps you can spend your money on better things, rather than wasting it trying to get kids off the computer, and out on the streets (which is not a good thing)
what could our children do if they turn off the computer for a week ?
Dunno, watch tv ?
Obsolutely Brilliant. Well done!
Who are those anonymous lame-asses criticizing this? I'm anon because I refuse to "register" for anything associated with blogging. If I ever decided to use up my free time "blogging" all of my opinions no one cares about then I'll rethink that. But I have no other identities so I can't log in, nor do I want to.
I don't give a rat's ass about any PC Turnoff week, but you don't see me writing in saying it's a bad idea. Quite the opposite, it's a great idea. Computers and TV are mindnumbing.
Video games have evolved so they actually are stimulating, but that's another story (and there are plenty of video games out there not on a PC, so turn off the PC and suck it up already).
Oh, and a server isn't exactly a PC so nice comment on that one, dork. PC is what you have in front of you, hence the "Personal" in Personal Computer. A server would be more like a business computer, actually it would be a Supercomputer. If you're using a Supercomputer as a PC, then you are absolutely nuts (however, your point would then be valid in your bizarro world; perhaps you just need to have craploads of storage and speed for no reason). Are you a person who buys a Ferrari and then never goes over 15mph? If so, then I'll rescind this comment and wish you well using your server as a PC.
Anyway.
There are tons of things to do with your kids, or have your kids do by themselves, without computers. Even without TV. Down with TV. It's summertime. Use your brainstorming capabilities.
Fishing, surfing, sailboarding, skateboarding, swimming, hiking, photography, inventing, library tip, making something in the garage, playground, Rugby, rockclimbing, sailing, biking, lawncare, entrepreneurship.
Maybe get creative and combine a bunch of those together.
Or, just let them sit here and get all angry reading this comment because they aren't doing anything but playing on the computer.
Why am I "hypocritical?" Well, I'm not. I'm not a kid. This is PC turnoff for kids. Kid means you are under 18. That, and it's my job to be online all day long in my virtual office. Otherwise I might have turned off my PC just for the heck of it.
Besides, what's wrong with being a hypocrite? If I have authoritah (and I'm assuming that parents still have authoritah over their kids) it doesn't matter what I do; just do what I say.
--Butty the Butthole
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