Standing corrected.

My husband is indeed interested in giving the book a read, especially since I'm going to use it as the basis of the equivalent of heroin depravation. I guess asking him to start it last night was too much to ask as his brand new kindle arrived.

It was smaller than I expected.

I'm only allowed to be online at the moment because I had to order son's school books. Bye from me for now before the WILFing begins...

Dare I turn the internet off at home? The Great Unscreening.

I've been reading The Winter of Our Disconnect and it is both inspiring and scary. As we also live in a household full of flickering screens, blank eyes and ever shortening attention spans I've decided we should do something similar. Surprisingly, 13yo seems to be on board with it, he almost sounded relieved on the phone. Was he aware that he was having trouble controlling his xbox consumption? Or did he just want his parents back? Who knows, but he's definitely on board (hurrah!).

My husband was a whole other matter. When I first mentioned a disconnect ("How about we turn the wireless off?") he reacted as though I'd just asked him to swallow a whole live frog. I decided to quickly give in (after all he does need it for work) and mentioned that we could cordon off internet access to just the study. He's slightly more interested now, not in reading the book (I think he's waiting for it to come out on the Kindle) but in following orders with respect to the Great Unscreening. As usual, I'm the director of operations, hauling along the unwilling for their own good. We've already evicted the television from the living room and survived without for a whole month.

I'll keep everyone posted when internet is allowed. :)