not to let DD have a tv in her bedroom?

[sashangel]

My DD is 6. She has started the going to friends for tea. Her friend came to our house for tea yesterday and asked if they could put the tv on in her room. She said that she didn't have one and her friend looked gobsmacked. She told her that she had always had one and watches in bed on a night to go to sleep. She has now asked for a tv in her room.
AIBU not to let her have one with very strict limits on times she can watch?

My kids have phones. No phones in bedrooms either. Looking at the time, this should extend to my iPad in my room...

The TV in bedrooms question is older than the mobile phone one 18years - when I was scchildmobile phones had only just been invented a required a special bag to carry them in - huge things. I wanted a TV in my room because the living room TV showed only my dad's choices (Antiques Road Show, Last of The Summer Wine, James Bond films...) and even when he was at work most things weren't allowed (no Top of thepops, no soaps ever).

tulipgrower, that is hilarious! We got either a bible or a set of plastic rosary beads for our First Holy Communion, as did every kid I know.

No tellies, phones or other fancy electronic goods here for this year's FHC. Or anyone we know.
Shall I tell my dm she owes me a flat screen mega telly for my FHC in the 70s?

I meant a landline telephone

Ha I remember begging for a landline phone in my room as a teenager i think i had been watching to much American Tv they all lay on their bed swinging legs twirling the cord itlooked so glam

tulip the Catholic kids here (Bavaria, so at least 2/3 of kids) gets hundreds - in some cases well over a thousand - of € in cold hard cash from various relatives for their first Communion - they do it at age 8 here, and spend it on expensive new bikes and in the case of a bunch of DD's friends a pony riding holiday the Catholic girls almost all went on together. .. They also got a day off school (which is technically illegal here - school attendance rules are even stricter than the UK) the day after and the priest and some parents took them all to the zoo - the non Catholic minority had to go to school. Unsurprisingly my kids are somewhat jealous too - though they only suggested pretending to be Catholic :o

Nope. Aware other countries have a present fest for FHC ( and anniversary of FHC!). Not here. At least not in our neck of the words.

I can't see why anyone wants TVs in bedrooms- I certainly don't
Not meaning to pick out this poster's comment in particular, but this is a strange attitude to me. Clearly lots of adults do like a TV in the bedroom - so some children will do to, as they are not mini-mes who only like what we like. I had a lovely cuddle with dh watching a movie in bed last night, both sitting reading would not have been a shared experience, we do separate things most of the time.
The dcs don't have a telly in their room, as I can make different decisions for a child than I do for myself.

Nothing better than sitting up in bed in the morning at the weekend watching the news or whatever with a cuppa.

if that makes me a bit weird so be it.

Young children should be encouraged to socialise with the rest of the family. They should also not watch TV for long periods. It leads to them being unable to focus without constant stimulation. (Same goes for headphones).

Someone raised the subject of porn
"specialsubject Thu 23-Apr-15 12:36:49
no, end of. Just because others are poor parents doesn't mean you need to sink down.
apart from poor sleep hygiene and semi-porn on all the music channels, if she wakes up after 1130 she can see the real porn."

Fact is after about 9:30pm there are some Sky channels that show content that is completely unsuitable for kids. They are freeview ads for subscription channels. Naked breasts, sex toys, threesomes and women in their 20s dressed as schoolgirls. Not what you want a young child to stumble on.

What I don't understand is why it is allowed before 10 - there is supposed to be some sort of super-watershed then.

Or why porn channels are not blocked automatically unless someone deliberately unblocks them.