AIBU to not let 10yo have TV in bedroom?

Definitely not at 10! Maybe after A levels!

We learnt this the hard way. The older boys had in rooms and were gaming at all hours. And yes we put on WiFi controls but they played offline etc. We ended up putting all consoles in a games room so we could keep a physical eye on it as well. It changed their habits (started reading etc) and made the difference to one between scraping GCSEs and getting good grades (going onto get excellent A levels).
Youngest has much broader interests, doing better at school etc

I never let any of my children( now adults with own homes) have a TV in their room. When my son wanted to game he had to do it downstairs on TV or pc.
Of course you're the meanest person ever born but you're going to be that anyway if you ever have any rules about anything.

Anecdotal I know, but was actually talking about this with my son recently, he's still close friends with a group of 5 or 6 people from school who all had quite strict parents( including me) with no TVs in bedrooms, restricted TV and gaming time etc, all of them got top GCSE/A levels and now successful doctors, barristers/ solicitors, etc.

I got my ds a TV for his room when he was 15...but for the duration of his gcses he had to bring down the remote control at 10pm.

Dd1 and 3 got them at age 13 (dd1 was during Covid and we couldn’t go anywhere or do anything so it brought our age forward). They use them really sensibly, often watching with a sibling (dd2 didn’t have one as she didn’t want one). They’re not allowed phones upstairs so it’s a balance. They still come down for lots of family time so I’ve not put in the strict rules I expected to need. We have a TV in the dining room as well as the main living room but the dining room one is small and rarely used.

I think, with all these things, it depends on the family and the dc. Just because my dc aren’t obsessive with the tvs in their rooms doesn’t mean yours won’t be. I’ve just realised we have a TV in our room and only used it as an alarm, waking up to the news each morning (links to our jobs). It got really depressing and at some point we started using a standard alarm. I don’t even know when but the TV hasn’t been turned on for more than a year.

My sons never had TVs in their rooms. We would never have seen them if they did! 😂However, I do have a TV in my room. In a house with six men, I deserved a place that was all mine!

No, mine can have a tv in their bedroom when they have their own home 😂
or at least, more realistically, once they have their A'Levels.

I am the meanest person too. It's not untrue that many kids have them, but frankly it's lazy parenting from adults who don't want to hear or see the video games or the kids programs.

If nothing else, it's a good thing that they dont' have a reminder of screens at all time. You can still send them to their bedroom where they have to occupy themselves.

I’m mid 50s. Never had a TV in the bedroom. Nor have my kids (now both at uni still without TVs).

No. I suffer from insomnia. Screens have n bedrooms are a no-no.

I hate TVs in any bedroom so we don’t have them.

No screens in bedrooms. I got push back for a couple of years but she’s a happier teenager because of the rule.