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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure how the TV watching got so out of hand, but now my five-year-old wants to watch it every morning first thing when he wakes up and then first thing when he gets home from school. If we're making dinner or need to take a call or do anything that requires us to take our attention away from him, he thinks the TV should be on. All of his bad behavior is related to not wanting to turn the TV off when it's time or whining and crying to turn the TV on in the first place. I wish we had never introduced TV in the first place, but we did and now I want to cut way back and there's going to be a mutiny.

Before you scold me, I know I'm the parent and what I say goes. I know that I should have set better boundaries around TV in the beginning, but I didn't. We are where we are and now I'd like to restore some balance with a minimum of family upheaval. So has anybody done this?  Would it be better to go cold turkey, at least for awhile, or try cutting back gradually?  Any other suggestions?[/quote]

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