Help Your Kids Self-Regulate How Much TV They Watch

Why?

A few benefits come to mind:
1. They will watch less TV.
2. You’ll have fewer arguments and fights with them.
3. They’ll learn to self-regulate.

How?

Have a system – a piece of paper will do, but an app on all your phones is also a good idea – where you write down what is your point of view on what and how much weekly TV is ok. They will use this to record each and every time they watch TV how long and what did they watch. Every time they’ll see what’s your accepted “allowance” is. Each week you’ll sit together and review last week’s results.

 

Practice You Part in a Play or an Audition When You Don’t Have Someone to Help You

Why?

You are preparing for you part in a play or an audition, and there is no one who can help you by reading you the lines.

How?

An app that reads the lines to you aloud, waits for you to say your lines, then continues reading lines to you until you stop the process or the end of the text is reached. If it’s a known text then you just have to choose who you are playing in the scene. If not, you can take a photo of the text, the app will do some OCR and let you choose your part. The app can also have an animated head articulating the words it’s reading to you.

 

Story Making Card Game Packs for Kids and Adults

Why?

For kids: help them have some structure to their story, and show them many different possibilities. For all: help them get going with their imagination, and have fun.

How?

Have different card packs for different aspects of storytelling. Structure, genres (romantic, detective, fantasy etc.), time periods, style (narrated, first person etc.), atmosphere etc. Can also be done online (website, app), and an online community where the finished stories can be published.

 

Book Maps: Fiction Literature’s Best Plotlines

Why?

See how the best plot lines were built, learn and get inspired.

How?

Have the best fiction books’ plotlines mapped by – preferably – editors and a graphics artist.

 

Local Weekly Artist Profile

Why?

Help you find new interesting artists in your own city.

How?

Local volunteer editors search and pick one artist to be profiled every week. During this week, people can communicate with the artist on the site. He may also offer special deals for his art during the week. You can sign up for alerts in you city or multiple cities if you wish.