Nicholas Bate suggests getting rid of your televison. I’m often tempted, especially given how determined the kids seem to be to sit and watch it to the exclusion of anything else. Then we sit down and watch something like The Wonders of the Solar System and are blown away with the images and facts. Yes we could get the same information from a book, but we would not share the experience in the same way and no book could reproduce the stunning images. So, for now anyway, the TV stays - but sits unplugged in the corner most days.