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[quote=Anonymous]She gets a snack and has 30-45 minutes of TV time to decompress. She then has to read for 60 minutes or play outside (if there's no sports practice later). After she's done that, she's free to play games or watch more TV.

This routine has worked out great. I've found that she's much less resistant to reading when she has the option to go outside instead. Sometimes she'll pick reading outside on nice afternoons and stay out there for a couple of hours. Same with when she opts to play outside instead of reading, she'll end up playing for longer than 60 minutes. Not heavily restricting TV/game/iPad time makes it less enticing for her, at least in our experience.

Typical afternoon w/o soccer practice: 
-Home by 2:40 & grabs a snack to watch tv  
-Usually starts reading or playing outside by 3:30 for at least an hour but usually longer
-4:45 - piano on Wednesdays
-Dinner at 6ish
-Dinner over & bath done by 6:45
-7-8 - TV/iPad/game time
-8:30 bed for reading and asleep by 9
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