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AIBU?

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to not want my nearly 6 year old to have a TV in his bedroom?

101 replies

saxony · 26/07/2011 19:40

How many on here have TVs in their children's bedroom. I don't agree with it while he so young but I don't want to be mean either. He asked me today as he has been with his 2 cousins and they have a TV in their room and watch cartoons before bed. Me and my son read books before bed, which would mean that that would get sidelined too perhaps.

Just curious about the general consensus.Thanks....

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Olympicnmix · 28/08/2012 18:02

Older dc have a TV that gets no signal but they play games on an ancient Gamecube on it, although they do ask if they can play and never in the evening.

No TV until teenage years, probably, certainly not before.

Sooty7 · 28/08/2012 18:03

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TraineeBabyCatcher · 28/08/2012 18:08

YANBU. I can't see the need for them in the kids bedrooms. We have a perfectly decent family tv and one in our bedroom which can be used if for some reason they're not watching in the lounge.

SauvignonBlanche · 28/08/2012 18:15

YANBU.
DS is 15 now, he can have a TV in his room when he has left school and has earned enough to buy one.
The same will go for DD.

NoComet · 28/08/2012 18:20

YANBU
My two do due to sodding iPlayer on their lap tops.

It means DD2 watches too much TV full stop and DD1 watches interesting history and science in her room I'd like to have watched with her.

ErikNorseman · 28/08/2012 18:21

When I had a tv in my room I stopped reading in bed. I much prefer reading before bed to watching tv, I think it leads to a calmer mind and better sleep. I'm going to assume that the same applies to my DS who currently loves his bedtime story and I do not want him to have the option to watch tv in bed.

Nymia · 28/08/2012 18:31

I don't think they're going to be necessary in a few years' time when my son is old enough to ask... However, Internet tv is where it's at for the future.

We got our first bedroom tv a year ago, but it is the only one in the house and before that we just didn't bother. I found that if you read forums like mumsnet or news sites like the bbc, they will often discuss a tv show that's trending or popular or controversial and has already been shown (for example this year I saw a newspaper review of Homeland, and forum discussion on the care home panorama documentary, word of mouth advised me to look at OBEM, you can see anything from BGT on youtube, etc), and with iplayer and catch up sites you never need to miss anything to keep you well-informed. Everything is downloadable. The only thing I watched live was the Olympics and in the end I streamed most of it because we don't have Sky and the red-button function isn't great on freeview!

Tablets are probably what my kids will pester me for, so they can read/browse/watch on the sofa, in their room, at a friend's house etc. I think the telly-in-bedroom debate is well on its way to becoming obsolete.

Nanny0gg · 28/08/2012 18:37

Mine got one the Christmas after their GCSEs. If they'd had one before that no homework would ever have been done.

How on earth would you monitor what a 6 year-old is watching in their bedroom?

Arabellasmella · 28/08/2012 18:44

No I wouldn't be for it. I don't like the idea of them disappearing off by themselves when they are little, I don't know what age I would deem it accetable really. Feel a bit of a hyprocrite because I absoltely love my bedroom telly and snuggling down to watch a bit of BB on a night!!

drummerswife · 28/08/2012 18:45

my dd who's 7 hasn't although she has got a portable dvd player but tbh she very rarely uses it and never at bedtime.she has a story then falls asleep to a story cd or tape.we don't have one in our bedroom either.

chickydoo · 28/08/2012 18:48

My 17 yr old does not have a TV in the Bedroom. Neither do I.
Very anti social!

Emmielu · 28/08/2012 18:54

My concern would be what time they nod off. Ex's DD at 4 yrs old would be up till 1am watching films and cartoons in bed. She mostly nodded off on the sofa watching tv. She ended up waking at 7 and being very tired and grumpy the next day.

amandine07 · 28/08/2012 19:08

YADNBU...6 is way too young to have a TV in the bedroom.

I would be thinking what is wrong with watching the main TV in the lounge, with his mates when they come round...my personal opinion is that children should not have TVs in their bedrooms.

We took our TV out of the bedroom as we'd fall asleep before watching a whole film or program or I'd stay up late watching some rubbish hen be knackered the next day. The bedroom is for sleeping in, and other a activities hee hee!

Socknickingpixie · 28/08/2012 19:16

icooksocks i am traumatised by your behaviour and i hope you are ashamed of yourself socks are for wearing and stealing not not not for cooking

op no tv's in bedrooms for under 11's in this house

CockyPants · 28/08/2012 19:22

YANBU.
DD is 6 too. DP and I are united on this, that she will not have TV in bedroom. We don't have one in our room either. 1 TV in the house, and no Sky. So we all watch CBBC and Horrible Histories DVDs ad nauseum!

exoticfruits · 28/08/2012 19:23

No way-I can't see why anyone would want a TV in their bedroom. Mine had it as an option once they were adult and bought their own.

CleoSmackYa · 28/08/2012 19:25

My 6 year old has a TV in her room. It just plays DVDs, no channels. It's the only TV in the house though, and we still read books together, and she doesn't often watch it.

PiratesKnittingTreasure · 28/08/2012 19:27

But surely parents can also ban tablets/laptops from kids's bedrooms? My concern is the lack of parental censorship that goes on when kids hide away in their bedrooms - that won't improve with Internet use.

My boys are going to be so disappointed that the high tech age stops at their bedroom doors!

aamia · 28/08/2012 19:44

I've spent years teaching kids who have TVs, playstations etc in their rooms. A good half of those switch it BACK on after bedtime and watch 'till all hours. I don't have any of that in my bedroom - we have TV, laptop, Wii etc in the living room, which is where they will stay when little one gets old enough to be interested in such things. Bedtime is for sleeping, the living room is for playing in/watching tv!

SleepyCaz · 28/08/2012 19:52

Mine are 6 and 3.

Each have a tv/DVD combi in their rooms. No aerials or freeview boxes though. They can only be used for watching DVDs, so we turn them on and we decide when to turn them off.

Hasnt been a problem so far. Neither of them ever ask to watch them during the day.

A couple of episodes of Dora/Spongebob after bedtime story and then off.

I don't see the issue

Chandon · 28/08/2012 19:54

My 6 and 10 year old donot have one.

We do not have one either. The TV n the livingroom is for all of is, it is nice watching with the older DS, it is much nicer watching a rubbish show chosen by DS together than watching something on our own, imo.

There is something sad about a house full of people all watching tv on their own in their own room...

AdoraBell · 28/08/2012 19:56

My two, 11, don't have TVs in their rooms and won't get them anytime soon

freddiefrog · 28/08/2012 20:03

Mine are nearly 11 and 7

They have TVs in their rooms, but they're only connected to DVD players (no tv ariel on them). They never watch them in bed, but I don't really want to sit through Finding Nemo/Madagascar/whatever their current obsession is again and again so they watch them in their rooms

It's up to you whether he has one in his room

Choufleur · 28/08/2012 20:08

DS is 6 and is desperate for a proper tv in his bedroom. he's very recently been allowed our portable DVD player in his room - mainly so that when he wakes up stupidly early at weekends he can turn it on and watch it until a reasonable time.

He occasionally watches it before bed -but not until late so he's not falling asleep to it.

He also will go up to his room and watch something when DH and I are watching grown up TV sometimes

TBH I don't want him having a proper TV as I don't want him flicking and watching something inappropriate.

5Foot5 · 28/08/2012 20:44

Why do people bring these old threads back to life?
trumphy resurrected this thread that is over a year old.

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