It’s spring. Time to get rich by tuning into something other than TV. Next Monday is the 14th annual Turn Off TV week. There is lots of information on the Turn Off TV Week web site, downloadable information at the Center for Screen Time Awareness and a Turn Off TV blog entry with some info on this years event.

I serve on a task force to fight obesity in our schools and was amazed to learn that kids are having major health concerns at an alarming rate because of our sedentary lifestyle. We REALLY need to have at least two additional campaigns:

1) Turn in your TV - get rid of your TV all together and get a scooby snack. (Of course, I wouldn’t know about scooby snacks had I not spent a trillion hours watching TV as a kid!).

2) Turn off ALL electronic gadgets (and gas powered ones) for one week each month. Heck, I’d settle for a day.

Hear ye, hear ye… all couch potatoes…turn if off, get off your duff and get outside. 

Starting on April 21, the first day of Turn Off TV week, I’ll give a few ideas with each blog post of things you can do with your kids to avoid the tube or the screen of death (I know, my computer contributed to a rotater cuff problem).

Does Money Buy Happiness? I have never thought that but in today’s New York Times there’s an article entitled Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness. Well, on Second Thought… I’ll comment later…chime if you think it does or know it doesn’t.

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