This Tween Tuesday, Liz Atwood is wondering how to get her boys moving again after they lapsed into screen addicts during the recent snow.
Is any month longer than February? The calendar says it has only 28 days, but it feels like an eternity. Here's my problem: I don't know how to get the boys out of the house. During the blizzards, they turned into video-gaming blobs, but at least their couch time was interrupted by time spent building snow forts, sledding and snowball fights.
Now, the novelty of the snow has evaporated, but not the snow itself. I tried every way I could think of this past weekend to get the boys outside. I tried to interest them in getting out the Ripstiks—after all we can see a little of the pavement now in the court and I thought they could ride around the snowdrifts.
That suggestion went nowhere. I offered to pay them if they shoveled a parking space for the car.
OK, they did do that. They then took their money and bought another video game.
Fortunately, both have been playing a little recreation-league basketball, but the season ends this week. I fear that the snow will not.
Do you have any suggestions that aren't too expensive for getting the couch potatoes moving again?
(Photo by Baltimore Sun photographer Jed Kirschbaum)