LimiTV partners with area
agencies, youth clubs, community groups and merchants to support
area schools in providing TV-free events for the national TV-Turnoff
Week campaign each spring.
tvto@limitv.org (919) 782-4198 
LimiTV works all year to inform parents about how to improve children's learning and health through limiting TV and identify alternative activities.
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TV-Turnoff Week
in the Triangle
.....See How Full Life Can Be
April 20-26, 2009
What is TV-TURNOFF?
Why Host a TV-Turnoff?
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Getting Started
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How Does It Work?
This voluntary program challenges children and adults to take a healthy break from television and media, and instead explore activities that foster greater social, physical, academic and creative development.
Volunteer
organizers energize their communities by distributing pledge cards,
suggesting screen-free activities, arranging fun events, and in general
spreading the word that going seven days without TV can be a rich, exciting,
and fun experience.
Participants pledge to re-engage in day to day life, and, with their
newfound time, they read, talk, play games, hike, think, or do any number
of other activities. For many, the task is much easier than they expected.
Why Host a TV-Turnoff?
Many of us have never
gone a week without watching television. We often find that when we take a break
from television as the default mode, we discover that life is more fun
when we do more and watch less.
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Involved Today!
What is TV-Turnoff Week?
TV-Turnoff is a nation-wide campaign started in 1994 by the TV-Turnoff Network in Washington D.C. Through various projects and support materials they encourage children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities.
The campaign is based on the belief that we all have the power to determine the role that television plays in our own lives. Rather than waiting for others to make "better" TV, we can turn it off and reclaim time for our families, our friends, and for ourselves.
TV-Turnoff Week is an easy and effective program which reminds people to put TV viewing in proper perspective. TV is fine -- in moderation. Participants hear the message and they have the opportunity to experience it themselves, and hopefully provide long lasting results.
The campaign is supported and endorsed by over 70 national organizations and succeeds because a network of thousands of volunteers (this means you!) work hard to organize local schools, clubs, libraries and communities to observe TV-Turnoff Week-- the last full week in April.
Medical Research
Medical research* findings
suggest that excessive television watching is one root cause
of a
host
of health problems including: overweight, diabetes, poor academic achievement,
poor social
skills, low self-esteem, a lack of creativity, and a broad increase
in attention disorders. In contrast,
studies
show that children who reduce their usage have more fun, read more,
sleep more, exercise
more, are calmer, and have an easier time with school.
Please join us for this year's celebration!
Further Reading
Media Literacy for Prevention, Critical Thinking, Self Esteem
* eg. American Academy of Pediatrics