Health and Safety
TVTurnoff Week is Here!!
April 19-25, 2010
THE STONELEIGH PTA CHALLENGES ALL STONELEIGH ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
TO PARTICIPATE BY KEEPING THE TV OFF.
Children who meet the challenge will receive a reward when they turn in the voucher signed by a parent.
Over 70 national organizations including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Education Association, and President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports support demonstrating to children that they can live without TV for a week.
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The Stoneleigh PTA offers an annual TV Turnoff week challenge because excessive TV watching:
-harms children’s reading skills both by displacing them from their daily lives and by affecting how they learn to process information, and
-contributes to childhood obesity and lack of heart health.
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Stoneleigh Elementary School parents who have supported the challenge report many successes.
-We did it! My son wakes up real early everyday and likes to watch Sports Center. He learned to read the sports page a lot more this week.
-It was hard for them, but they managed. They gave up the Wii for the week!
-My son balked at first, but found lots of alternative activities – which got us all moving! A full day of the stomach bug on Saturday was a tempting excuse – but he was committed to the cause. Today (Sunday) he cleaned up the basement playroom without prodding or assistance. What a wonderful experience for me (and the rest of the family).
Alternative Activities:
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