Unplug the cable, get rid of the Video games and put the DVD's in the closet. Make your kids understand just how many hours are in a day by giving them so much time that they go crazy. In the summer, the endless days of freetime usually result in a mental breakdown, because kids usually don't have the freedom or resonsibility to make their own desicions. we build their time for them, we pick them up and drop them off, we turn them into robots asking us what they have to do. Give them more time than they wnat and you'll soon find them making desicions and solving their own time crunches with only slight nudging from you. They will do better in school and they will learn what every minute of every day is for. Make a schedule and stick to it. let them organize their schedules, alot them only a certain amout of time for TV and Computer and let them do what ever they feel is necessery.

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