My daughter is admittedly a vidiot.  She will watch TV all day if you let her.  Don't get me wrong, TV's got it's place in homeschool - the science channel, discovery, nat geo, animal planet,  and so on - just too much is a bad thing.

With her watching so much TV lately, she's not getting her homework finished.  I figured out a way that works for everyone, since the TV's not getting shut off with a toddler and vidiot parent around.  She does a page of her workbook during every commercial break.  This is especially effective if we're watching something of interest (like how the earth was made, or dinosaurs decoded or the like).  For some reason, what usually has taken her five hours in the past, takes only an hour or so.

Now if I could only unplug myself from the TV...

:D