National TV Turn-off Week

National TV Turn-off Week…

…is September 19 – 25, 2010.

· Screen time cuts into family time and is a leading cause of obesity in both adults and children.

· National TV-Turnoff Week is the first nationwide effort which targets the medium of television and asks that people reassess the role TV plays in their daily lives as entertainer, pacifier, babysitter, time filler and background noise.

· The average number of minutes per week that parents spend having meaningful time and conversation with their children is 38.5, while the average number of minutes per week that a child spends watching TV is 1.680.

· National TV-Turnoff Week is about having more fun and turning "on" your life. It's an opportunity to rediscover the wide range of activities that exist when one unplugs from the sedentary, image-based, simplistic and commercial world of television