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.
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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.
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Get More Episodes From a Series First Season
Why?
Sometimes when you watch a TV series you like, on the second or third season you have a certain nostalgia for the feeling you had when the series just started. Those few episodes, or maybe the whole first season was somehow different.
How?
If the series is successful in its later seasons, you can create new episodes in the same style, atmosphere and corresponding to the plot lines that existed in the first season. You can insert them between other already well-known episodes to expand on them.
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