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to not want a tv in the bedroom?

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CatFaceCrayola · 20/09/2014 23:05

DH currently has a TV and a PS3 in the bedroom. He likes watching films or programmes at bedtime. They help him get to sleep.

He slept in the spare room for a few weeks whilst I wasn't feeling too well and it's made me realise how much I prefer no tv.
I'm really not a fan of watching tv ever (the complete opposite of DH)

AIBU to want DH to ditch the bedroom tele?

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magicalmrmistofelees · 21/09/2014 07:24

Hate tv's in bedrooms. IMO bedrooms are for sleep and sex. The only time we've ever had one is when DD was first born and cluster fed all night. I watched box sets to keep me awake.

CarmineRose1978 · 21/09/2014 07:29

We have one in our bedroom but it's only ever used for the Sunday morning repeat of bloody Match of the Day or recently for daytime watching of DVDs when I can't get out of bed easily (SPD).

Idontseeanysontarans · 21/09/2014 07:52

YANBU, the DC's have one in theirs but I refuse. Before DS was born DH had the idea of putting a TV in our room so we could do night feeds in bed and stay warm (we both sleep through TV watching so it wouldn't have woken the other one up). Lovely idea but I never used it. TV watching is for downstairs.

poolomoomon · 21/09/2014 08:04

Yanbu. TVs don't belong in bedrooms, ever.

Delphiniumsblue · 21/09/2014 08:26

I would hate one in the bedroom- they just don't belong in bedrooms as far as I'm concerned.

bubalou · 21/09/2014 08:32

When me and DH moved house 7 years ago there was already built in furniture in the master bedroom.

Due to the layout it's almost impossible to have a tv - so we don't.

DH does like TV before bed but it is sooo much better without one. It's a fact too that couples dtd more when there's no TV in the room and I think this is true Wink

fuzzpig · 21/09/2014 08:38

YANBU.

I say that as someone who for years relied on VHS DVDs to sleep.

As others have said it's not just the dropping off to sleep, it's the quality of sleep, melatonin production etc.

For me it was an addiction and I'm much better off having broken it. My god it was hard work though.

I still sleep downstairs if I have a bad chest infection or other bug as it distracts me from the pain, but I now try and get back upstairs after a couple of nights as my sleep suffers otherwise.

sausageandorangepickle · 21/09/2014 08:38

we have a TV in our room, and have done for years, but I could count on one hand the number of times it has been on in the evening. Great for either

a) having milkshake or cbeebies on in the morning to have more snoozing time with lively little one

b) in the event it's just us in the morning, watching the news

or c) keeping me entertained through a mountain of ironing on a sunday afternoon.....

Sunnymeg · 21/09/2014 10:55

We have a TV in our room. It was put there a few years ago when I was on bed rest following an operation. I don't think it has been switched on in five or six years, ever since I was well enough to get back out of bed.

Ludways · 21/09/2014 11:03

We don't have a tv in the bedroom, I haven't has one since I was a teenager.

curiousgeorgie · 21/09/2014 11:20

I love having a TV in the bedroom... I use it everyday.

When DD2 is having a nap DD1 and I watch a movie on my bed, I fall asleep to a movie or TV most nights and DD watches it if I'm sorting washing or anything upstairs..

I like TV's in bedrooms. There's one in DD's bedroom too. I hate silence, even if I'm not watching it I like having background noise.

maras2 · 21/09/2014 11:21

Bedroom's are for sleeping and shagging.We've managed over 40 years without a telly in the bedroom.DS was married yesterday and we stopped over at the Holiday Inn venu.There was a huge TV in the room but neither of us felt the need to turn it on.

Icimoi · 21/09/2014 13:40

The plural of anecdote is not evidence.

But it is conclusive evidence that it's not a universal rule that watching TV makes it more difficult to drop off to sleep, isn't it? I'm another one to whom that rule doesn't apply.

Also, the problem with TVs and screens in the bedroom is not just quantity of sleep but QUALITY of sleep. There is strong evidence that even people who "fall asleep with the TV on" tend to sleep less deeply and get poorer quality of sleep.

Again, in my experience, not so. And that research is primarily based on people who fall asleep in their sitting rooms in front of the TV. Clearly it's hardly surprising that you sleep less well if you fall asleep sitting upright in a room with the light on and no duvet or pillows.

blanklook · 21/09/2014 14:31

Also, the problem with TVs and screens in the bedroom is not just quantity of sleep but QUALITY of sleep. There is strong evidence that even people who "fall asleep with the TV on" tend to sleep less deeply and get poorer quality of sleep.

The light from TV, computer and some phone screens is predominantly blue which simply put, instructs the brain to function in daylight mode, it delays the natural hormone releases in the brain like melatonin and over time is simply not good for you.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827094211.htm
I'm sure there's a lot more research available if anyone's interested enough to look.

Book readers give off a different light frequency which does not cause that type of disruption.

Pixel · 21/09/2014 21:00

No tvs in our bedrooms. I can just imagine dh watching some old rubbish while I'm trying to get to sleep so no thanks! I have enough broken sleep with his snoring.

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