As Phil mentioned in his blog post, Screen Free Week is coming. Conceptually this seems much harder than the old TV Turn off Week that some of us remember from back in the day.
I have been talking about this with professional friends on mine, and while so many of advocate for families to drop everything and read, we do need to acknowledge the fact that nowadays, much of our reading is done on screen instead of on page.   So many things about our everyday lives come to us over media.  Zite aggregates my news for me and I read the headlines on my commute.  My PLN has grown through twitter, and library professionals help each other 140 characters by 140 characters everyday.  I teach my students how to find and evaluate information, how to be a good digital citizen, and how to find books using screens.
Can I go screen free?
Maybe not professionally, but I am going to give it a try personally.  My main reason is to provide an example for my daughters, and my students.  Just as modeling reading for pleasure is essential to raising readers, I do think modeling screen free time is important for our children.
Please visit this video from RandomHouse featuring some prominent Children’s Book artists and authors talking about the importance of screen free time.