Sibling TV fights
grandchawhe4
Awhile ago I posted that I had limited TV for my children. After your advise, I took those limits off, but now I'm faced with a new problem. My son (6) wants to play video games and my daughter wants to watch a movie. We have one tv. The solution so far has been to watch a show on my computer. The problem is, is that I'm a writer and need my computer for work. Short of buying another tv is there anything else I can do?
plaidpanties666
--- In [email protected], "grandchawhe4" <grandchawhe4@...> wrote:
Sometimes its possible to arrange in advance for "time" on the tv and computer, and I expect others will have stories, but in my family it has helped most of all to have enough resources to go 'round. We have a very slim budget, so we've found ways to do that creatively. One solution we have is that we have an old, clunky computer that isn't hooked up to the internet and all non-internet games, movies and writing happens there. That helps a lot! I can do a lot of writing on the one and then use a flash drive to transfer it to the other computer and not be tying up the internet composing. It also helps us to have a "games" tv - one that's not hooked up to the dish. That tv is a little older and clunkier, too - a yard sale find.
---Meredith
> Short of buying another tv is there anything else I can do?You could buy another computer ;)
Sometimes its possible to arrange in advance for "time" on the tv and computer, and I expect others will have stories, but in my family it has helped most of all to have enough resources to go 'round. We have a very slim budget, so we've found ways to do that creatively. One solution we have is that we have an old, clunky computer that isn't hooked up to the internet and all non-internet games, movies and writing happens there. That helps a lot! I can do a lot of writing on the one and then use a flash drive to transfer it to the other computer and not be tying up the internet composing. It also helps us to have a "games" tv - one that's not hooked up to the dish. That tv is a little older and clunkier, too - a yard sale find.
---Meredith
Joyce Fetteroll
On Mar 20, 2010, at 6:41 AM, grandchawhe4 wrote:
*Any* commodity that's desired but is in short supply will cause
tension and fighting. That's human nature. It's probably the root of
most wars.
Used TVs and older computers are cheap. Check Craigslist and Freecycle.
Joyce
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> Short of buying another tv is there anything else I can do?I don't think that solution should be shuttled off to last resort.
*Any* commodity that's desired but is in short supply will cause
tension and fighting. That's human nature. It's probably the root of
most wars.
Used TVs and older computers are cheap. Check Craigslist and Freecycle.
Joyce
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lalow66
we have found many a cheap t.v. at garage sales and free ones on freecycle.
for the video games you just need the right plugs. my son has 27 inch t.v. in his room that i picked up for 15 dollars at a garage sale.
for the video games you just need the right plugs. my son has 27 inch t.v. in his room that i picked up for 15 dollars at a garage sale.
Lyla Wolfenstein
i'd urge you to not stop short of a second tv! you can probably get a pretty decent one cheap or even free... it's a little like saying "we have one dining room chair and both my kids want to sit in it at the same time, what can i do?" :)
----- Original Message -----
From: grandchawhe4
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:41 AM
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Sibling TV fights
Awhile ago I posted that I had limited TV for my children. After your advise, I took those limits off, but now I'm faced with a new problem. My son (6) wants to play video games and my daughter wants to watch a movie. We have one tv. The solution so far has been to watch a show on my computer. The problem is, is that I'm a writer and need my computer for work. Short of buying another tv is there anything else I can do?
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[email protected]
We just bought another TV at the Salvation Army. One we saw was a 32 inch for $45. Freecycle has TVs for free.
Nance
Nance
--- In [email protected], "grandchawhe4" <grandchawhe4@...> wrote:
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> Awhile ago I posted that I had limited TV for my children. After your advise, I took those limits off, but now I'm faced with a new problem. My son (6) wants to play video games and my daughter wants to watch a movie. We have one tv. The solution so far has been to watch a show on my computer. The problem is, is that I'm a writer and need my computer for work. Short of buying another tv is there anything else I can do?
>
d.lewis
***We just bought another TV at the Salvation Army. One we saw was a 32 inch
for $45. Freecycle has TVs for free. ***
The TV we've been using for a couple years came from Goodwill and cost
$12.99. (We left the price tag on, it amuses us so.)
We have a second TV in the spare room, a junk store find, under ten dollars.
Dylan has a TV in his room. Goodwill. $2.99.
They all work just fine. They're ugly, but they work just fine. <g>
Dylan has about thirteen televisions, second hand, older, some really old.
He likes old TV's <g> likes to tinker with them. Some he repaired. They
all work, but they're not all plugged in. <g>
Deb Lewis
for $45. Freecycle has TVs for free. ***
The TV we've been using for a couple years came from Goodwill and cost
$12.99. (We left the price tag on, it amuses us so.)
We have a second TV in the spare room, a junk store find, under ten dollars.
Dylan has a TV in his room. Goodwill. $2.99.
They all work just fine. They're ugly, but they work just fine. <g>
Dylan has about thirteen televisions, second hand, older, some really old.
He likes old TV's <g> likes to tinker with them. Some he repaired. They
all work, but they're not all plugged in. <g>
Deb Lewis
d.lewis
Again with the TV, one day in the second hand store we found a flock of
televisions from the state prison. Apparently the inmates were getting new
TV's and the old ones migrated to the Goodwill. They were all clear
plastic. We bought one. It's small. All the internal organs are visible
through the clear plastic. That's so inmates can't conceal contraband
inside their televisions. I had never thought about that and it was really
fun to discover that there are TV's made specifically for prisons. <g>
It's like those "Visible Man" models, only like a TV instead. <g>
Deb Lewis
televisions from the state prison. Apparently the inmates were getting new
TV's and the old ones migrated to the Goodwill. They were all clear
plastic. We bought one. It's small. All the internal organs are visible
through the clear plastic. That's so inmates can't conceal contraband
inside their televisions. I had never thought about that and it was really
fun to discover that there are TV's made specifically for prisons. <g>
It's like those "Visible Man" models, only like a TV instead. <g>
Deb Lewis