Comments on: the one year experiments http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrea http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/comment-page-1/#comment-85315 Andrea Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:24:45 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/#comment-85315 I am in love with the idea of a book on "A Year of Living Average-ly" or however one might word that . . . like, find out what the absolute statistical average is for every (in your case) American family, and do it that way-- average car, average amount spent on groceries, gas, eating out . . . average time spent in front of the TV, exercising, etc. It could lead to some fantastic social commentary, too, because as one article I read put it (and I am paraphrasing a little, here, cause I can't find the actual article) "although the average American exercises twenty minutes a day, this is actually because about 17 percent of them exercise for well over an hour each day and the rest barely stir off the couch." This is actually something I've been thinking about for several months now. If I were married with two kids I might try it myself, but me, I am just not average enough :P I am in love with the idea of a book on “A Year of Living Average-ly” or however one might word that . . . like, find out what the absolute statistical average is for every (in your case) American family, and do it that way– average car, average amount spent on groceries, gas, eating out . . . average time spent in front of the TV, exercising, etc.

It could lead to some fantastic social commentary, too, because as one article I read put it (and I am paraphrasing a little, here, cause I can’t find the actual article) “although the average American exercises twenty minutes a day, this is actually because about 17 percent of them exercise for well over an hour each day and the rest barely stir off the couch.”

This is actually something I’ve been thinking about for several months now. If I were married with two kids I might try it myself, but me, I am just not average enough :P

]]> By: Kendra http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/comment-page-1/#comment-84957 Kendra Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:18:45 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/#comment-84957 I *heart* Goodreads. I'm religious about keeping mine updated, and I just about died when I found it, because for years, I had been keeping my own 5-pt ratings of every book I read, so I was able to just add all 400+ of them to the website. Love it. LOVE. I *heart* Goodreads. I’m religious about keeping mine updated, and I just about died when I found it, because for years, I had been keeping my own 5-pt ratings of every book I read, so I was able to just add all 400+ of them to the website. Love it. LOVE.

]]> By: Katherine http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/comment-page-1/#comment-84956 Katherine Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:13:47 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/06/11/the-one-year-experiments/#comment-84956 My dad put our whole family on a month of no sugar one summer when I was a kid. Actually the rule was sugar couldn't be in the top 5 ingredients, although he made an exception for ketchup for us kids. I managed it better then than I would now. Don't remember feeling any different though... I could do no TV, except it would be a boring book. My kids don't even complain anymore when we do turn off the TV week (this year I told them it meant no Wii either since it uses the TV). My dad put our whole family on a month of no sugar one summer when I was a kid. Actually the rule was sugar couldn’t be in the top 5 ingredients, although he made an exception for ketchup for us kids. I managed it better then than I would now. Don’t remember feeling any different though…

I could do no TV, except it would be a boring book. My kids don’t even complain anymore when we do turn off the TV week (this year I told them it meant no Wii either since it uses the TV).

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