{"id":9154,"date":"2015-05-03T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2015-04-30T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:24:54","slug":"screen-free-week-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9154","title":{"rendered":"Screen-Free Week Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0147\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7721\/17199063741_eaf15b727a_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0147\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7721\/17199063741_eaf15b727a_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0147\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Scary zombie-screen-faces<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, our boys are participating in\u00a0<em>screen-free week,\u00a0<\/em>which is exactly what it sounds like; there will be no videos, no computer games, no screens for the whole week. We&#8217;re starting today with much excitement! Actually, we&#8217;ve whittled our boys&#8217; screen time down to twice a week anyway (they usually get an hour of computer games every Wednesday and a movie on either Saturday or Sunday), so I don&#8217;t anticipate this to be very challenging for us, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it is not a big deal. It&#8217;s really important, and I&#8217;d love for you to join us!<\/p>\n<p>Supporting screen-free week means focusing on daily life and being more present during the moments we are together as a family. I will probably struggle most with this, as I do all my writing and blogging on the computer, but I have set up posts in advance for every day this week in anticipation. I&#8217;m planning to do all the errands and cleaning and exercising I usually do while the boys are in school, but I&#8217;ve added a few to-do&#8217;s to my list to keep me from reaching for the computer, including gardening, mulching, and preparing for my trip to Ohio with Oliver next weekend (hooray!). The boys are especially looking forward to choosing a new book at their school&#8217;s book fair this week.<\/p>\n<p>And while I realize that being completely screen-free for the adults is not easy or possible in some cases, it is totally do-able for your kids. If you decide not to go screen-free for the week, at least consider cutting back! Would you consider doing this? What do you see as potential drawbacks? I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scary zombie-screen-faces This week, our boys are participating in\u00a0screen-free week,\u00a0which is exactly what it sounds like; there will be no videos, no computer games, no screens for the whole week. We&#8217;re starting today with much excitement! Actually, we&#8217;ve whittled our boys&#8217; screen time down to twice a week anyway (they usually get an hour of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Screen-Free Week Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,147],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-living","category-montessori-inspired","tag-green-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}