To not understand why children need a TV in their room?

[mrsruffallo]

Following on from another thread-I am quite surprised how many kids have a TV in their bedrooms.
Surely they can read to go to sleep?
Or watch the one in the living room?
Come and enlighten me, why do children need their own one?

I don't think that tv in bedroom necessarily equals no family life.

But I do think that it is a symbol of the fact that children are totally over indulged now, and that they grow up with a sense of entitlement to material things and no understanding of the value of things/money.

Because invariably it's not just a tv is it? It's a tv/dvd player/games console, or two/a sky box/laptop and so the list goes on, and befoore you know it young children have hundreds of pounds worth of electronic equipment in their bedrooms and that's before you even look at their toys.

A lot of children are simply given everything they want, and I can't help wondering if there is a link between that and the increase in the number of young people getting into debt, because they simply have to have everything now because they've never been told "no."

TVs in bedrooms are a bad idea as without massive monitoring (why set yourself up for that?)you do end up with children watching it by themselves far more than they should and watching unsuitable programmes. By the time you have teens, they are all off in their rooms antisocially watching their own programmes whilst on their laptops and phones msn ing etc. That is the truth of the matter and that is what will happen.

My DS (nearly 5) hasn't got a TV in his room but not for want of his DAD trying!

I just don't get this at all. We have five bedrooms in our house - every single one has a TV in it, with the exception of my son's. There is a TV in the wall in our dining room.

The two areas I absolutely refuse to allow a TV are my son's bedroom and the conservatory (to the point where I said I would rather not have one if he was going to stick a TV in there).

I know I am going to have a battle ahead when my son asks for one, too. He can obviously go into another bedroom and watch TV but at least when I put him to be it isn't going to get put on!

be = bed

DW says she wants a TV in our bedroom though - so may have to think again on the 'no TV in bedroom' rules.

posieparker - we don't watch a huge amount of tv. The tv's are there if they need to be watched. My children do not have a tv on in bed to go to sleep - they are there if they need to relax and want to put a film on. We have a tv in the conservatory so the Wii can be played. Oh and the tv in the room is huuuuuuuge

Whether I have more money than sense is my business not yours

As you were...

Next there will be a thread following on from this on how people spend their money.

YANBU. We have one TV which is in our front room. My children will not have a TV in their bedrooms in the foreseeable future, and nor will dh and I. I would also not feel comfortable about them having a computer, but as secondary school is looming this may be needed eventually.

I am not anti-TV. I just know that my children would watch TV day and night if they could get away with it. Therefore bedrooms are only for books and toys. I also strongly believe that screen time just before bed does not help a good nights sleep.

Going on holiday is a real treat for my dc. They love having a TV in their bedrooms, and I do not stop them watching it then. However, holiday should be different from every day life.

What Madsometimes said.

We have one TV and the DS's (2 and 4) have to work out learn to share it and compromise on whether Roary or In the night garden gets watched.

Each to their own, but TV isn't a huge deal here. We don't watch a lot - most weekdays the children don't watch any. Early Sat / Sun am - well that is a different story!

'it's fair to say TV is the entertainment choice of poorer people ' arf

Im not poor (but not rich either) i like watching TV, doenst mean i am povety sticken and uneducated

VT, it's just a common known fact that poorer families are more likely to watch TV and not visit museums for example. That's not to say less well off people are thick, uneducated and unimaginative it's just more likely that they will watch TV.

I've never heard of this common known fact, maybe its only circulated among the posh

Museums are cheap

Gosh what silly things some people have said on this thread.... the judgy no tv brigade.
Ds has a tv in his room which he goes to watch when the rest of the family don't want to watch his choice. We have a turn off time at night and yes, i do trust him not to get up and turn it on in the night, he knows it will go if he does.
he's extremely active, plays football 3 times a week and cricket twice. If the urge to visit a museum came over us i'm sure we would just go.
he plays out every night after school until 7pm.
He's socially articulate, a very popular little boy.
Oh and in answer to the op.... no he doesn't need a tv in his room just like we don't need one in the living room.
We have them because we want them.

YABU!!! Who cares if other people's Children have TV's in there rooms.... I have a 42 inch plasma in my bedroom with Sky I love it

Thats not hard Shiney, everyone is posher than me

here here barnsleybelle!

pingpong, i want one too

pingping - now your talking!

Posieparker your chatting shit!!!! Most museums are free!!!!

I am not poor an I watch alot of TV in the evenings and weekends also just before work!!! Whilst I am watching TV I am on Facebook and working on my company so your common known facts are in fact not true

VT - are you calling pingping names

I always call here pingpong, i'm sure she smells lovely though

here her

Seriously it was the best investment of my life I love to chill in bed on a saturday morning watching the latest premiere on Sky Movies Also with programmes that are on so late its nice to be in bed an watch them.

Her!