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My children watch way too much TV. They turn it on when they wake up, and it stays on until I realize how late it is and tell them to turn it off. Now how can I expect the younger ones to teach themselves to read, and how will the rising first-grader teach himself fractions, if the TV is on all the time? So today is Day 2 of a TV crackdown ("Uh oh," was Steve's response when I first proposed it). But I didn't present it as a crackdown. I suggested to Pretlow (he's usually the one who turns it on) that the TV is not really helping our brains and we'd probably learn more if we didn't have it on so much. So they can watch three half-hour shows per day (which I'm sure is still above the Department of Education's recommended daily allowance for young children). So far, no one seems to mind. Imagine that.