Julie Bogart

I am on board with seeing television as a source of education and am
not opposed to it as a source of entertainment either. What I'm
struggling with right now is how our house is set up. When the TV is
on, it dominates the acoustic space.

That means that the kids who do have to study (I have one part time
enrolled in high school and another who has chosen to follow The Well
Trained Mind program of his own accord and a third in college part
time) and me (who is in grad school) don't have the quiet necessary to
focus. It doesn't help to leave the room. The entire downstairs can
hear the TV. The primary place to study is the kitchen table or the
living room. Our kids' bedrooms don't have space for desks since they
are doubled up with beds and dressers (the bedrooms are tiny).

So what is happening is that there is conflict over TV - turning it
off, when it can be on and so on. The X box is not a problem since
there is no laugh track of talking. But TV? It's on a lot and it's
very distracting.

And we have the difficulty of schedules. Some kids need TV as downtime
after school while the other is just getting ready to sit down to study.

Any ideas I'm not thinking of for making TV not a source of tension
and not so dominating?

Julie B

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Hi Julie,

I was wondering if headphones would do the trick? I think they have wireless headphones, so no one is stuck to a cord <g>. Hope you find a solution that works for you! Tess


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> From: "Julie Bogart" <julie@...>
> Any ideas I'm not thinking of for making TV not a source of tension
> and not so dominating?
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> Julie B
>
>

Angela

<<Any ideas I'm not thinking of for making TV not a source of tension
and not so dominating?>>

Could you move the TV to your bedroom or the set up a cozy corner in the
basement or something?

Angela
game-enthusiast@...


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Rue Kream

headphones?

~Rue


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Joyce Fetteroll

On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Julie Bogart wrote:

> Any ideas I'm not thinking of for making TV not a source of tension
> and not so dominating?

Headphones? There are wireless headphones. Radio Shack I'm pretty
sure sells them.

There are also splitters (also at Radio Shack) so you can plug two
headphones into the one jack. My thinking might be musty on this but
I think that would split the signal strength in half so you'd need
headphones you could turn the volume up on. Anyway that'd be
something to check before you buy a splitter

Joyce

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Julie Bogart

Wireless headphones... that's worth looking into. We can't move it to
the bedroom since we already have a smaller TV up there (but the
DVR'ed shows are my dh's and he doesn't want the kids adding thereis -
takes up too much space). So not workable.

Basement is not finished and is freezing in winter so no go there.

Will look into headphones.

Julie

--- In [email protected], Joyce Fetteroll
<fetteroll@e...> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Julie Bogart wrote:
>
> > Any ideas I'm not thinking of for making TV not a source of tension
> > and not so dominating?
>
> Headphones? There are wireless headphones. Radio Shack I'm pretty
> sure sells them.
>
> There are also splitters (also at Radio Shack) so you can plug two
> headphones into the one jack. My thinking might be musty on this but
> I think that would split the signal strength in half so you'd need
> headphones you could turn the volume up on. Anyway that'd be
> something to check before you buy a splitter
>
> Joyce
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]