When she looked around her house, Betty Margaret saw lots of electronics. Along with the usual things like her laptop and smart phone, there were all her kids' electronic devices: cell phones, video devices and more! There seemed to be more than enough ways for her and her three children to be online all day, every day.
Ms. Margaret worried that her kids were becoming too dependent on the Internet and electronics. Then she began to reread one of her favorite books, Henry Thoreau's Walden, which gave Ms. Margaret an idea. Thoreau spent 2 years in a simple cabin without running water, and having to grow his own food. Maybe she and her family could live without such luxuries as computers and electronic devices for a while.
Ms. Margaret talked with her kids and explained that she wanted the family to try living for 6 months without the Internet, cell phones, TV and video games. Ms. Margaret writes articles for a newspaper in Australia, and had written several books as well. She told her children that if they agreed, she would write a book about their experience and they could go on a trip abroad with the money from sales of the book. Her three children agreed, and the "experiment," as Ms. Margaret called, began. Over the course of the experiment, the Margaret children had different reactions to life without electronic. Before the experiment began, Anni, the eldest of the children, read books more than her younger brother and sister. She therefore had relatively easy adjustment to the family's new lifestyle. Anni could also use the library's computer for her homework. Bill, who loved to play video games before the experiment began, had to find a way to spend more time practicing his saxophone(萨克斯). Susan, the youngest child in the family, had the hardest time adjusting to life without electronics. She felt restless(不安的) for the first weeks and later, influenced by her elder sister, gradually began to find interest in the novel experiences brought by various books.
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The family carried on with the experiment for the six months without technology controlling their lives.
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Ms. Margaret wrote the book she had planned.
