Media Junkie

I spend an average of 4 hours a day with media and digital entertainment. I only scored an 11 on the internet junkie test. My husband and I watch two episodes of The Mentalist a night before bedtime. This serves as our "together" time as we have a 5 month old daughter, a dual income household, and I'm taking 15 hours of school. We use the internet primarily for education, the Army, keeping up with bills and bank accounts, and questions about our daughter on sites like babycenter.com. When I'm doing school work I listen to pandora radio for background noise. I also always have the radio playing while I'm driving. I also read the newspaper, or FOX news online to keep up with what's going on worldwide. I spend around 2 hours a day talking on my cell to my sister who is also a stay-at-home mom. Other than that we spend very very small amounts of time on social sites such as Facebook. We are occasionally on there to update pictures of the baby for his family who live in other states. The only other form of technology we use regularly is our GPS when we have to go into the heart of KC where we aren't as familiar with the streets.

I believe this is the best use of my time as I am focused on my family and the developmental milestones of my baby girl, rather than that of things that don't really matter anyway. I remain active and enjoy getting outdoors with my family and exploring the world rather than reading about it.