We just had our very first screen-free Wednesday, and it was quite a success. (True confessions: Last week we forgot, conveniently enough.) I found it very relaxing — so quiet. And it definitely made for more quality family time (mostly because I wasn’t constantly checking my email). Andy tried to circumvent it all by saying he needed to look up something online for his homework. That probably would have been OK, but I dug deeper. Turns out he needed to check the geography surrounding the battle of Bunker Hill, for a drawing project he was doing. I suggested he check the antique encyclopedias that grace our living room bookshelves as decor, since the information couldn’t have changed much in a a couple of centuries. Sure enough, he found what he was looking for. He pouted. I chuckled.