For all of you lot who have tvs in your kids rooms

[fishfinger]

i made ds1 read this this morning

No tv's in rooms, ours or the girls. One downstairs and the only thing that has on it most of the time is bloody football or ceebeebees until I feel like topping myself with Balomory etc.

If they want to watch dvd's when they are older, they can watch them downstairs.

I really can't for the life of me see that I am doing my DD any damage by allowing her to watch her favourite videos in her room for limited periods but ho hum! She is bright and into everything and doing fine at school.. but I am not immune to these studies and do worry - as I said below - but then we could all worry about everything couldn't we? We can only do our best.

DS1 (age 13) has a tv in his room too.. but again, not plugged into any ariel so no actual tv. He doesn't even watch videos - he just uses it for his play station (which no doubt is incredibly damaging to his intellectual development as well.. even though I am very strict about what games come into the house, ie no senseless violence.)

LOL some days I come on here and end up feeling like a bad mother before I have even had chance to get remotely impatient with my kids.. other days I come on here and am helped so much by a piece of valuable information. Double edged sword.

I wasn't allowed a tv in my room until I was 18 (and went to uni!) Plan to do the same with mine, didn't do me any harm, in fact it probably did me some good in that I have always read loads and still don't watch much tv.

i didnt have a tv in my room until i was about 14. i wouldn't even consider putting one in my ds room until he was at least 11 or 12

KiwiKate,
I understand that some children can have problems interacting hwever this is not only the children who are advanced above their years. My son is as i said much more advanced than his years BUT he is a great when it comes to socializing. He can socialize with adults very well and with children, he is very caring and considerate but like any other child he has his off days.
I do not regret encouraging him to learn no more than i regret encouraging him to play.

my dd has a t/v in her bedroom - well a dvd combi thing and i for one won't be changing it = it has helped dd hugley when she wakes in the night with leg spasms and she's comming on fine at school - so fine in fact she didn't have to go to special nursery and has joined a mainstream.

We dont have tv/pc in children's rooms but they have one in the kitchen/dinner only for videos. Pc we now have two one in the lounge the other in the kitchen. (for me to use for study in september).

just to stir a bit

A girl I taught never did homework for me or her other teachers and mum never responded to letters home. By chance dh and I were recently househunting after school one day and happened to visit this girl's house. She was sat in her room watching TV!

Before you slate me I understand you can have this and still do hwork.