Should have done this earlier!

In an attempt to keep our boys from wasting their entire summer in front of the Wii, my hubby wrote a little computer program that allows us to track their time.

First the boys have to earn time on the Wii. We enter time into the program after they've earned it, doing such things as reading, helping around the house, playing outside, etc. Then they use the time to play on the Wii and we enter that as well. Hubby even set up a daily limit for them! I am amazed at how my youngest wanted to read yesterday! He's a hoot.

And my oldest is off at my mom's working on a quilt with her. All of his sewing time counts towards Wii time as well.

The bottom line is that we're so SICK of them doing nothing else, that we've limited time to force them to do other things. I think for this week at least, we've been successful.

Now if my hubby could just hack the Wii so that it would shut off automatically.....

ha.