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What My Family Does Different: No TV
Your family has a rule everyone else thinks is strange.
Your family has different rules. This book helps you name them like the choice they are.
For the child whose family does not have a television and who navigates questions from peers about shows and screen time they do not have.
The Name It First Experience
Your family does not have a TV. That means you do other things. When kids at school ask what you watched and you do not have an answer, it can feel like something is missing. Your No TV Family Page says something different: your family made a choice, and choices mean something. You will name the things your family does, draw what evenings look like, and write the words for when someone asks why. The output is not an explanation. It is a page you made about your family's life.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What is it like to not have TV in a world where everyone assumes you do — and what has that shaped in your family?
- What does your family do instead of TV — and what has that built in how you spend time together?
- What do you want your children to understand about why your family made this choice and what it has given them?
- What has the choice to live without TV given your family — and what do you want to document about why you made it?
Research basis
White and Epston on narrative therapy and family practices / Deci and Ryan on self-determination theory and autonomy / Christakis on screen time and child development / Rogoff on the cultural nature of human development.
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