Congratulations, with your purchase of the TV ALLOWANCE you will find an amazing and meaningful improvement in the quality of your children's lives. The TV ALLOWANCE has also been validated by major universities, including Stanford University Medical School, as an effective solution to improve grades and reduce childhood obesity! It stops the family squabbling over television and computer time.

HELPFUL HINTS TO PARENTS: offered here is some of the collected wisdom of parents who have raised their kids using the TVA. With their recommendations they helped define the extremely user-friendliness of this product.

We suggest you introduce the TV ALLOWANCE by sitting down with your children and asking them what they need to watch in a week, not what they want to watch in a week (you as a parent can always observe that they do not 'need' to watch shows you deem inappropriate). The idea is to let them be involved in negotiating their own tv/computer allowance. They will see that if they manage their weekly allotment of time they can view what you have both agreed is important to them. You will find that what a child needs to watch is usually far less than what he/she wants to watch. You may want to sit down and pull out the TV guide section of the paper and go over this with your child to see what and when the shows are that they would like to view. The best thing about the TV ALLOWANCE is that once set up, parents are now 'out of the loop' and it's up to the kids to manage their allowance. The 'set it and forget it' feature gets rave reviews.

People ask "What if my kids share their time and therefore watch more TV than they should?"

The answer here is that the rule in the house should be that if the TV is on, anyone is free to watch it, and thus you should give your children individually a small enough amount of time that they are encouraged to cooperate and share their time, which is especially useful to them if they are saving against a reward. Remember when initially programming the TV ALLOWANCE it is easier (politically) to increase weekly time hours than it is to decrease.

What if I have more than one television?

You will need a TVA for each television or computer monitor you wish to control. To apportion a child's allowance between two or more sets, just ask how much time he/she wants on the one and how much on the other. It is easy to adjust allowance times.

The TV Allowance has made a real difference in the lives of over 20,000 families. If you would like to call the TVA to the attention of your PTA or other educational or church groups, visit our website to link to our PTA partners program.