two stats on family life
Hat tip: The American (Jan/Feb 2008), passing on reports...
1.) From the Pew Internet and American Life Project (Feb-Apr 2006):
On a typical day, I watch TV...
a.) < 1 hour
b.) 1-2 hours
c.) 3-4 hours
d.) 5 or more hours
a.) 3%; b.) 44%; c.) 34%; d.) 16%
Wow...people: kill your TV!
No wonder it seems like, to other people, that I "get so much done"!
2.) From the QEV Analytics for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (Apr-May 2007):
My children and I eat dinner together as a family X days in a typical week:
a.) 0-2
b.) 3
c.) 4
d.) 5
e.) 6
f.) 7
a.) 13%; b.) 11%; c.) 18%; d.) 22%; e.) 12%; f.) 25%
As a country, we seem to do pretty well by this metric. As a family, we do pretty well on this one, considering that I often teach two evenings per week. (What we don't have for dinner time, hopefully we make up at other meals!)
posted by Eric Schansberg @ 11:18 PM
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1 Comments:
We made some of these changes after reading Randy Frazees books Making Room for Life and The Connecting Church. It also falls in line with my company and what we do. We have canceled cable in the past and are going to do it again it February. We went one full year without the tube and we had much more life about us. We played games as a family. We read more. We wrote more. We played more golf and volleyball. We spent more time investing in our children. We watched more inspirational movies.
We usually make it a goal to eat breakfast together most mornings and then we have dinner 4-6 nights per week. We love this time.
It was upsetting to here that Frazee has left Willowcreek and has joined Oak Hills in Texas. Frazee's premise in his book in grounded in communtiy and not packing up and moving every two years. Unfortunately, he's been from Texas to Chicago back to Texas again all in the past 2-3 years. It seems like the ministry, including staff at Southeast, has become a transient industry if you will.
On a side note- I loved Max Lucado's sermon at Southeast this weekend. It's the third time to see Lucado. Once at Southeast in the past, and once last year at his church in San Antonio. I was moved by his words.
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