To think it's rude to make a point of not letting your kids watch telly when staying with someone else

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I have a couple of sets of friends who come to stay with us from time to time. My kids are allowed to watch the telly some of the time.

These friends order their kids out of the living room whenever they find them watching telly with my kids. AIBU to find this irritating? It makes me uncomfortable because I feel as though my choice to let the kids watch is "wrong".

I must point out that they watch CBeebies, not slasher films. I would see their point then.

oo your friends sound interesting. do they do anything else weird

v rude and irritating.

When in Rome do as the Romans do is what I say. We had something similar once with some visitors, it royally hacked me off and I think it's the height of rudeness.

I think it's the only thing they do that I don't much like.

your friends are rude idiots

They don't want their dc to watch tv which is their choice to make but they do not inflict their choices on your dc they remove their own instead. What would be rude would be insisting the tv is turned off.

They sound lovely. How rude!

That is pretty over the top. I would find that annoying and a bit controlling, it's fine to have a no TV rule at home but making them sit in nn other room when visiting is bonkers.

Stop inviting them !

This would really annoy me, it's so unnecessary. For a short stay it's very over the top.

What corrupting influence do they think ten minutes of CBeebies is going to have on their poor children? They sound bloody rude.

I'd tell them to unclench their sphincters, CBeebies aren't going to turn kids into criminals or drooling eedjits. Their house rules might be "no kids watching tv" but my house rule is "any kid may watch appropriate tv" and if they don't like it they're free to clench themselves off home then.

Its rude to make a point of it, and I'd have a guess that is no probably done in such a way to make their view well and truly known.

Their choice, but it would very much put me off inviting them.

I don't really get people who have a blanket ban on TV tbh

There's really good programmes out there Breaking Bad addict

Good TV for DC, I mean

They sound very rude and mean actually. Bet they are the helicopter parents, who micro manage everything.

They sound very odd (and rude).

I think that's really rude; when I'm in someone else's house we go with their rules. For example, we don't allow sweets unless it's the weekend, but if we're visiting and they're offered sweets then they're allowed.

YANBU.

They sound really annoying and rude. I wouldn't invite them again.

I think that's unbelievably rude considering they're actually staying with you!

There's a completely bizarre viewpoint that tv is in itself a bad medium. Which is nonsensical, really - there is good and bad tv just as there is good and bad theatre, books, film etc. What do they think will happen if their children are exposed to a bit of tv? It's pathetic, really.

Install a TV in every room, switch them all on, and then remove the power button and hide the remotes.

Then observe.

Very rude- either stop inviting them or just carry on and ignore.

I have to disagree here - if we are invited to someone's house I expect we are invited because they want to talk to the grownups/play with the children. Why were we invited if you were just going to stick the tv on? You can do that without us there.

So whilst i wouldn't order my dc out of the room, i would suggest that the children do something else after a (quite short) while. I think it's rude to put the tv on when you have guests!

They are incredibly rude but quite funny- as if that's going to stop their children viewing screens/tvs/computers in the future. You have to feel sorry for them really.

It would be rude to have the TV on all the time if they popped over for an hour or two, but if they are staying, some downtime TV is entirely appropriate. My dd2 and her best friend used to cuddle up together (8 years old) watching films, it was incredibly sweet.

Have you ever been to the supermarket with them?

I bet they're into performance parenting, big time!