Susan Sarandon's advice to kids: Find something that you really like to do

I watched some TV when I was growing up, but I never really was a screen person. I read a lot, and my daughter was the same way, possibly because her earlier years were spent in Italy, and they didn’t really watch a lot there.

The battle of my sons has been much more difficult, because the possibilities of what can entertain you has multiplied a thousandfold. My youngest guy was working a computer when he could barely reach the keys, so it’s second nature to him. … He knows everything on the Internet, so it’s been very, very challenging to try and find a way to slow that down.

We had the computer in a public space until this year, so we had a pretty tight ship where that’s concerned. … TiVo also made it easier to control, because when they were younger they couldn’t watch anything until their homework was done. So instead of them saying ‘My show — that one hour I’m allowed tonight — is on at a certain time,’ you could say, ‘Finish your homework, and we’ll be able to see it later!’ So it gave us a little more flexibility.