What age do kids have a TV in their bedrooms?

[Lovingmylife]

Just that really.

It was 18 and 22 in my house!

Kind of joking. The lads bought their own tvs when they wanted to. Up until 4 years ago we just had onee tv in the house.

Mine won't be having one at all.

I got one when I was 10, but it was very different to now. A little tiny square thing, no arial, just for watching videos (not even DVDs!) and playing my ps1 for an hour after school.

Those were the days!

Take no notice of all the perfect parents on here who probably already have a TV in theirs and their children's bedrooms but daren't mention it on mumsnet! If you want to get a tv in your child's bedroom then do it, if you don't then don't do it. Imagine older children and teenagers nowadays going to school saying they aren't allowed a tv in their bedroom, as a parent of 6 children who knows many children and their parents I can tell you it's very uncommon for a child of 10 or over to not have a tv in their room. The child can still have a normal bedtime and you can say no tv at night straight before bed or before school etc (as i do with my all of my children under age 16). You set the rules that you are comfortable with, you can even keep the remote away when you don't want them watching it, it's your choice what works for you and your family. I'd say there's no particular age that's right or wrong but you certainly won't find many honest answers on here

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All these people saying they don't have TVs in bedrooms is bollocks

Mine don't.... why would anyone make it up on an anonymous forum

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Why have you resurrected a year old thread which irritatingly I just posted on....

We don't have a TV in our bedroom. DS didn't get a TV until last Christmas when he was 18. But it's moot these days as they all have devices and can watch things on phones, tablets or computers.

Oh for goodness sake - sorry for responding to a ZOMBIE THREAD.

Planning on never. The more tech you have the more controls you have to have, restrictions etc . I can’t be bothered with that. Eldest dc uses tablet for gaming that’s it.

Never. We don’t have one either, they are really bad for sleep.

But DCs are 14 and 12 now, they have phones and a PS4 in their room and they watch you tube etc on there. They all get turned off at 9:30 through the week.

when they move out and have their own bedroom.

When they get their own place!

We never did. By the time they were 14 and 16 they watched stuff on their laptops in their rooms or in the living room with headphones on.

Mine never had tv's in their room until they were teenagers and it was mainly for gaming. Never in a million years would I have allowed it had they asked when they were small.

Mine never did. But she’s an only child and we had a second living room with tv and PlayStation x box etc, still have to be honest, even though she’s 24 now. My husband games in there, she games in there or works in there when home.

She also had a computer growing up so could have watched something in her room but never did.

She never watched tv on her own though, if she wished to watch something we never took issue with it, we had sky since she was little so programs were recorded so things could be watched as we pleased either live or recorded. We would watch our own stuff when she was in bed.

My daughter has two TVs in her flat, one in her living room and one in her bedroom. All her friends have TVs. It’s only students in my experience who tend not to.

Never. I never got one and my kids won't either. They just use their laptops anyway

Most kids these days like to play games and need a tv.

Fabulous use of "need."

My DD won't have a console either. Cretinous, mind-numbing, anti-social shit

@PlanktonsComputerWife

Most kids these days like to play games and need a tv.

Fabulous use of "need."

My DD won't have a console either. Cretinous, mind-numbing, anti-social shit

Actually gaming can be very beneficial and teach good skills from co ordination to problem solving, it just needs to be done in moderation.

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@Bluntness100 sorry, I don't want to shit on anyone's hobbies or passions. Sorry if I was too blunt.

I should have said, "We dislike computer games and don't have consoles or TVs beyond the one downstairs" and left it at that.

I don't like televisions in bedrooms, I think they encourage bad posture, among many other things

[quote PlanktonsComputerWife]@Bluntness100 sorry, I don't want to shit on anyone's hobbies or passions. Sorry if I was too blunt.

I should have said, "We dislike computer games and don't have consoles or TVs beyond the one downstairs" and left it at that.[/quote]
Well it’s not my hobby I don’t game, my daughter games and gamed about an hour or so every couple of days, my husband the same.

I don’t understand the concept of it being cretinous or anti social unless someone is doing it to excess. A lot of these game require a lot of thought, it’s not like those daft tv tennis games decades ago.

I just don’t understand why anyone would write them off and blanket ban them, teaching your child to have varied interests and self regulate is what’s important.

Plus if she doesn’t have one she will be in the extreme minority, her friends will have teams and play virtually together and she will be excluded.

The view that gaming mind numbing cretinous and anti social is extreme, aggressive and quite naive, as said, it’s not my thing, but I can see the benefits for kids in gaming, done in moderation.

Surely it’s on us as parents to allow our children to try different things, find what they enjoy, they don’t need to spend all their time in the garden, with their head in a book or watching documentaries.

The issue with gaming is only when parents allow it to be done to excess and habe no control. But that’s not gaming that is the issue.

Ds14 got his at 10 I was sick of the computer being on the main TV.
Dd7 has ds old one ( upgraded his at Christmas)in her room but it never gets used.

My oldest now has a tv in his room. He’s moved out.

Apart from that - never!

Never. And no the kids don't have tablets either.