Speaker 1: Welcome to Lively Lewis Stories.
Speaker 2: Buckle up because you're about to join Levi and Ivy
Speaker 2: on an adventure.
Speaker 1: All you need is your imagination, and off we go,
Speaker 1: Privy Rare Stories. Levi, can you get the mail please?
Speaker 1: His mom asked.
Speaker 2: She was busy making dinner, and Levi was playing a
Speaker 2: game on his iPad. When he didn't answer, his mom
Speaker 2: asked again, LEVI, can you please go get the mail?
Speaker 1: Dinner is almost ready.
Speaker 2: Without hearing what his mom said, Levi answered, uh, sure, Mom.
Speaker 2: He was so wrapped up in his game he didn't
Speaker 2: go get the mail. At dinner, Levi hid the iPad
Speaker 2: on his lap under the table. When his family wasn't looking,
Speaker 2: he played silently.
Speaker 1: In between bites. What did you learn at school today?
Speaker 2: Anything exciting? His dad asked, looking around the table. Ivy
Speaker 2: answered right away. We learned about the planets. There used
Speaker 2: to be nine, but now there are eight. Pluto is
Speaker 2: a planetoid.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Ivy's dad replied, I still like to think of Pluto
Speaker 2: as a planet, Poor little Pluto. Ivy giggled at her
Speaker 2: dad's response, thinking of the little round planet with a
Speaker 2: sad face, feeling all lonely in the solar system. Turning
Speaker 2: to Levi, their dad said, what about you? Did you
Speaker 2: learn anything fun today? Levi looked up quickly, hoping to
Speaker 2: hide the fact that he was playing his game.
Speaker 1: I am well, I learned.
Speaker 2: Because Levi was so distracted he couldn't remember what he
Speaker 2: learned at school that day. His parents put two and
Speaker 2: two together. Hand it over, his mom said, holding out
Speaker 2: her hand.
Speaker 1: Aw Levi pouted.
Speaker 2: Reluctantly, handing his iPad to his mom. She put it
Speaker 2: on the counter and came back to the table. You
Speaker 2: know the rules, Levi. No iPads at the table, she reminded.
Speaker 2: Levi nodded, remembering very well of the family rules. Dinner
Speaker 2: was a time for catching up with each other and
Speaker 2: sharing all about their day. Still, he wished she could
Speaker 2: play on the iPad all day and all night. It
Speaker 2: was so much fun. No more iPads for the rest
Speaker 2: of the day, his mom said firmly. Later that night,
Speaker 2: when the kids were supposed to be looking at books
Speaker 2: before bed, Levi was pretending to read while secretly playing
Speaker 2: on his iPad he'd grabbed off the counter after helping
Speaker 2: with the dishes. Coming into his room to say good night,
Speaker 2: his mom saw the iPad sticking out from the pages
Speaker 2: of the book Levi was pretending to read. Taking it
Speaker 2: from him, she said, if you keep playing on that
Speaker 2: thing without taking a break, you will get stuck inside.
Speaker 2: Cool Levi replied, I would love to get stuck inside
Speaker 2: one of my games. That would be super fun. Tucking
Speaker 2: him into bed and kissing him good night, she informed
Speaker 2: him he was not allowed to play the iPad for
Speaker 2: the rest of the week. Mom He complained, what was
Speaker 2: he going to do all weekend without his games? As
Speaker 2: he tried to fall asleep, he envisioned being stuck inside
Speaker 2: his iPad, coming a character in his favorite game and
Speaker 2: going on all kinds of adventures. I would fight the
Speaker 2: dragon and win, he imagined. I would use my superpowers
Speaker 2: to jump over the castle and avoid the dragon's fireballs.
Speaker 2: He thought of adventure after adventure as he finally drifted
Speaker 2: off to sleep. The next day was Saturday, and without
Speaker 2: the iPad, Levi quickly grew bored. He already done his chores,
Speaker 2: cleaning his room, vacuuming the living room, and taking out
Speaker 2: the trash. Ivy was playing with her baby dolls, which
Speaker 2: sounded super boring. He wandered around the backyard for a
Speaker 2: little while. Then he went to the family room to
Speaker 2: watch TV. As he laid on the couch flipping through
Speaker 2: the channels, something on the shelf caught his eye. It
Speaker 2: was the iPad, So that's where Mom put it, he
Speaker 2: thought to himself. Carefully climbing on one of the chairs,
Speaker 2: Levi was able to reach the iPad and soon get
Speaker 2: lost in his game. He played and played without a
Speaker 2: care in the world, as he he had a strange
Speaker 2: sensation come over him, a whirling and twhirling sensation that
Speaker 2: made him feel dizzy. Then, as the room started to spin,
Speaker 2: Levi got sucked inside the iPad.
Speaker 1: Ah, he yelled.
Speaker 2: As he peered out from the other side of the screen.
Speaker 2: He could see the family room from where the iPad
Speaker 2: laid on the couch he was stuck inside.
Speaker 1: He panicked.
Speaker 2: Mom was right, he said, aloud, I played too long
Speaker 2: and now I'm stuck in here forever. Help help, he yelled,
Speaker 2: hoping someone would hear him. However, with Ivy busy playing
Speaker 2: in her room and Dad busy working on something in
Speaker 2: the garage, no one was even close enough to hear
Speaker 2: poor Levi.
Speaker 1: Calling for help.
Speaker 2: While inside the iPad, Levi tried to have fun like
Speaker 2: he did vision the night before, but it wasn't fun
Speaker 2: at all. His video game character, a young Knight, kept
Speaker 2: running in circles and going nowhere.
Speaker 1: Being stuck in the iPad was miserable. Help Help.
Speaker 2: Levi continued to holler. After what seemed like forever, he
Speaker 2: heard his mom in the distance calling his name.
Speaker 1: Levi, what are you up to?
Speaker 2: Then he heard his sister calling for him too, LEVI,
Speaker 2: come out, come out wherever you are. She thought he
Speaker 2: was playing hide and seek. Finally, Levi heard his dad
Speaker 2: join in, Hey, Levi, where are you buddy? We're starting
Speaker 2: to worry about you. The family searched high and low,
Speaker 2: coming in and out of the family room, not noticing
Speaker 2: the iPad laying on the couch.
Speaker 1: They looked in his.
Speaker 2: Bedroom, outside, and everywhere they could think of. Coming together.
Speaker 2: In the family room, Levi I heard his mom say,
Speaker 2: where could he be? I'm really starting to get worried.
Speaker 2: It was at that moment that Levi shouted at the
Speaker 2: top of his lungs.
Speaker 1: Help, I'm in here. I'm stuck in the iPad. Ivy
Speaker 1: was the first to hear him.
Speaker 2: She grabbed the iPad and saw Levi's panicked face on
Speaker 2: the screen. Look, she cried, handing it to her dad. Levi,
Speaker 2: she said, super worried. How on earth did you get
Speaker 2: in there? I don't know, Levi answered miserably. This was
Speaker 2: the exact thing his mom had warned him about. I
Speaker 2: told you this would happen, she said. There has to
Speaker 2: be a way out. Think, LEVI think. Levi thought about
Speaker 2: his mom's warning from the night before. He should have
Speaker 2: listened to her. It wasn't healthy spending too much time
Speaker 2: on the iPad. It distracted him from more important things,
Speaker 2: like spending time with his family, playing outside, and reading
Speaker 2: interesting books. At that moment, Levi made a decision. From
Speaker 2: now on, I won't sneak around to play the iPad.
Speaker 2: I'll find fun things to do. I don't ever want
Speaker 2: to be stuck in here again. As he spoke those words,
Speaker 2: Levi felt the familiar swirling and twirling that he'd felt earlier.
Speaker 2: In an instant, he was back in the family room
Speaker 2: with his sisters and parents.
Speaker 1: Levi.
Speaker 2: They shouted, hugging him to lightly. I'm so sorry, Levi said,
Speaker 2: in between high fives and hugs. From now on, I
Speaker 2: will practice self control, and from that day on, Levi
Speaker 2: I kept his promise. He enjoyed playing on the iPad
Speaker 2: for a short bursts of time while also having so
Speaker 2: much fun with his family and friends.
Speaker 1: After all, he realized that people were much.
Speaker 2: More important than video games.
Speaker 1: Did you learn a lesson from this story? A sou
Speaker 1: what was it? And parents, do your kids have a
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Speaker 1: Until next time, Thanks for listening. Come back for more