I would have been more concerned had Yancey been a first-time author, Melissa. Anyway, I did like it. But I can totally see why you'd be suspicious ;-)

How neat to have inspired you to try this again, Nina. I'm so glad you took the time to tell me how it went for you. For us, it was definitely harder on the weekend (as evidenced by us not making it through Sunday either). We're now trying a "no TV during the week" policy for our daughter. She doesn't love it, but I think it will get easier. Maybe. I do think it's harder now than it used to be to go totally screen free, since so much that we need is online. My personal view is that iPhone and iPad better for my daughter than TV, because at least they are interactive. But I don't think enough research has been done to state this definitively for kids in general. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you gave it a try! Thanks for the report!

I hope you like it, Kendra. I think it will be a great vacation book.

Oh, it's available. I just happened to have the ARC and not the finished copy. I will doubtless pick up the finished copy for my daughter when the time comes, though.

I would think that one could try Screen Free Week any time, Ann. It would be interesting to see what you replace the TV and computer time with. I've stopped taking my computer on vacations in the past year or two, and rarely use it on weekends. But during the week, I am on it all day, every day.

Thank you for taking the time to read it. I hope that your students enjoy it!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm sure this will be a work in process going forward. It's going to become harder to put limits on my child when I spend so much time looking at screens myself, I suspect. But I like the idea of only having computer game and TV time on the weekends.

I think it's very well-written, but I haven't been able to get very far yet, due to a shortage of reading time :-( Hopefully this weekend I'll get a bit more in.