When my kid is bored he eventually figures out something to do.
if he gets less tv or whatever, for a period, he gets deeply invested in lego or drawing or similar
if he gets less tv or whatever, for a period, he gets deeply invested in lego or drawing or similar
I firmly believe that humans need seasons, i.e. periods of time that are different from each other, either summer, winter etc, or periods where a TV show is simply not accessible.
What almost always works to get away from TV, though, is if _I_ start a project, and within minutes my daughter will have picked up her own project, and we'll be companionably working on something.
I find that setting (and enforcing!) a limit works great though. Play X episodes a day, the turn the TV off.
"okay, just one more episode" definitely doesn't work!
But I also think that current ability to see the series at once and then be done with that is strictly superior over past "episode once a week" schedule. First, it leads to way more interesting shows, but also it affects my life much less.
The tv schedule used to rule peoples days, they would try to be at home for the show, they would stop socializing and what not just to see the show.
This is actually a very weird part about living in Los Angeles. It doesn’t feel like time passes when the weather is always the same.