Can your family be TV-free for one week?

In 2005, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported that children under six watched more than 25 hours a week of screen media, which includes the television, movies and computers. As kids get older, the television usage stats grow along with them.

But could your family go one entire week without turning on the television or watching your favorite programs online?

That's the challenge many families are undertaking next week as part of 2008 Turnoff Week, which goes from Monday, April 21 through Sunday, April 27.

For those families that do manage to turn off for one week, how many will give up the tube entirely?

We gave up our television nearly five years ago as part of an experiment and the first week was the easy part. It was week two that nearly sent me into a tailspin when baseball season started and I couldn't watch my beloved San Francisco Giants (or hottie then-first baseman, JT Snow) in action. But I plowed through it and we ended up selling our television at a garage sale. I will confess that I do get my pop culture fix online and my kids (6 and almost 3) do watch a DVD on the laptop about once a week. My husband and I miss watching ballgames but with so much available on the Internet a television is almost unnecessary. And at this stage, I can't really imagine having a television back in our home anytime soon. We've just learned to live without it.

Can your family be television-free for Turnoff Week? Would you even want to? And how important is the tube in your family life?