Maybe a nightly challenge of some kind...

Oct 25, 2016
1:14:20pm

Tokolosh All-American

No tablet/Phone screen after 8pm

Read for 20 minutes to each child

Read a novel or non-fiction history for xx minutes each night

Play a board game with your child/wife/whoever

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Tokolosh

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Breaking my phone addiction

rdiddy801

10/25/16 11:41am

This is really cool. I need to make some changes in this department.

Iman23

10/25/16 11:44am

Well done. Just deleted a bunch of apps.

Tortillero

10/25/16 11:50am

RE: Breaking my phone addiction

Division Bell

10/25/16 11:51am

That's great. I think I need a dumb phone and an iPad

KingDave

10/25/16 11:52am

I've been thinking about getting rid of my iPad, just using my phone, and...

Tokolosh

10/25/16 12:05pm

not a bad idea. It's embarrassing how much time I waste on screens.

Iman23

10/25/16 12:26pm

How do we make this happen - I'd be in.

maxlds

10/25/16 12:48pm

Maybe a nightly challenge of some kind...

Tokolosh

10/25/16 1:14pm

I like this - we could earn points over the course of a week/month, etc.

maxlds

10/26/16 9:26am

I seriously considered getting a flip phone, but I decided things like maps,

rdiddy801

10/25/16 3:23pm

RE: That's great. I think I need a dumb phone and an iPad

trom2foot3

10/25/16 6:01pm

I have been trying to do this as well. A few months ago it depressed me how

cougarnerd

10/25/16 12:08pm

I friend of mine plays a game at dinners out. He challenges everyone to put

Thrill

10/25/16 12:54pm

What if nobody checks it? Who pays?

cougarnerd

10/25/16 2:09pm

I don't know....dutch I guess.

Thrill

10/25/16 2:47pm

Wait. People agree to play this game?

daki

10/25/16 7:35pm

Strangely enough, getting an Apple Watch has helped me reduce my phone

Thrill

10/25/16 12:53pm

Now I need to break my Cougar Board addiction.

POLISHcoug

10/25/16 1:32pm

Seriously...I've just started following CB since earlier this year and I spend

Machiavelli

10/25/16 1:42pm

I check it about every hour in class and nothing ever changes.

POLISHcoug

10/25/16 7:03pm

Don't worry, I've got that covered too.

rdiddy801

10/25/16 3:25pm

Good call. I have to try that.

POLISHcoug

10/25/16 7:04pm

Is it possible to poop without a smart phone?

HenderCoug

10/25/16 1:59pm

Pretty sure it's not possible.

supertux

10/25/16 2:55pm

Never had anything but talk & text on my phone- still a proud flip-phone owner

farsurfer

10/25/16 7:33pm

In order to access the internet I have to get on my desk top computer - weird!

farsurfer

10/25/16 7:44pm

My laptop died a year and a half ago.

jensen46

10/26/16 6:39am

Good for you diddy

Triznaynay

10/25/16 10:30pm

wish my wife could break the cycle, she even takes it in the shower with her

pegushin

10/25/16 11:40pm

Please say this isn't true

cougarnerd

10/26/16 1:14am

I wish I was making it up. she learned it from triathlon participants, ridiculou

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