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What age do YOU think someone should be allowed a tv in their own room

57 replies

Twiglett · 30/06/2006 16:33

Interested in this one

personally I feel only when they're old enough to earn the money themselves to pay for it

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FrenchGirl · 30/06/2006 17:20

erm
never
we don't have one in our bedroom, I'd rather we tried and share the TV instead
(OK I'll get back to you in ten years time on that one )

biglips · 30/06/2006 17:23

i never had a telly in my bedroom till i was 18 when i paid it with my own money and it will be the same to my kids too

sowoffended · 30/06/2006 17:47

My eldest had his when he was 10 1/2 and he paid for it himself.

It has its uses, but we still have control.

Tommy · 30/06/2006 17:49

having spent a lot of time suggesting to parents of secondary school pupils that it's not a good idea, I guess i would agree with after GCSEs! (if at all)

PanicPants · 30/06/2006 17:50

When they can save up and buy it themselves. I was working (saturday job ) before I had enough saved up for a tv and video (mum and dad never wanted a video!!!!!!) and can still remember the excitement of recording something for me to watch in my bedroom for the first time!)

fisil · 30/06/2006 17:51

When they're in their late 80s and move into a home so that they don't disturb the other residents by snoring during countdown. We don't have one in our room, nor will the boys.

Californifrau · 30/06/2006 17:56

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apronstrings · 30/06/2006 17:57

I wont even entertain the idea - they can have them when they leave home!!!!

puff · 30/06/2006 18:03

My best mate at high school and her brother and sister didn't have tv's in their room, but they did have a "den", with tv, record player (showing my age )table tennis, tons of games, books and loads of big squidgy bean bags to loll on. It was brill. Parents strict on "den time" being after homework and set bedtime, plus no "shite" on the box, but it was heaven.

Rowlers · 30/06/2006 18:06

When they have their own house

roisin · 30/06/2006 18:25

Not yet (age 7 and 8), and at the moment I can't imagine when I would allow it. But kids do change, and their needs change, and it may be in a few years' time it seems a logical thing to do.

Freckle · 30/06/2006 18:33

25

cece · 30/06/2006 18:34

When they are old enough to pay their own rent or mortgage.

Freckle · 30/06/2006 18:39

And buy their own tv licence.

lunavix · 30/06/2006 18:40

Dh and I have a tv in our room, but we can only watch dvds on it (no aerial) and I do like us cuddling up and watching a movie together.

I personally think 13, dh thinks 18. Don't think dh had one till he was around 16/18, him and his brother used to watch movies in PILs bedroom (with permission) which I'd consider with ds if we were watching something downstairs.

warthog · 30/06/2006 23:39

never

quanglewangle · 30/06/2006 23:51

Wouldn't have encouraged it, but when he arrived home with one he had bought from a mate's mum I thought fair dos. Mate's mum had replaced it with a mega big screen jobby.

I guess he was 14 or 15.

essbee · 30/06/2006 23:54

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Toothache · 30/06/2006 23:54

Whenever they're old enogh to put a DVD on for themselves!!! Who cares anyway... never unnderstood the obsession with denying the TV! My ds is 5 and loves watching a dvd in his bed of a night. fab.

edam · 30/06/2006 23:54

Never. I've never had a TV in my bedroom either. Sets up bad sleep habits. (Obviously reading until gone midnight is completely different and acceptable, oh yes sirree, doesn't mean I get up all crotchety and grump at all).

Toothache · 30/06/2006 23:59

I don't have one in my bedroom coz I can watch it in the living room and fall asleep there! Ds can't. He loves his wee bit of independence when it comes to the TV. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!

I'm a telly addict and it hasn't done me any harm.

quanglewangle · 01/07/2006 00:04

I love the telly too, and am exiled to watching it in the spare room as dh hates it.

I used to tell him if there was something on that I knew he would like, but I don't ever now. He is too snooty about tv and deserves to miss it

olivia35 · 01/07/2006 00:10

I would be inclined to say 'when they save up for it' but I have a sneaking feeling that by the time ds & dd are old enough for p/t jobs, TVs will be free with a tank of petrol.

I'd be more concerned about interactive media like PCs, but that's a whole other argument...

Oh & I've got mates who bought their 3 yo dd the Winnie the Pooh tv/dvd on the grounds that they 'can't get her to sleep in her own room' & think this may be sufficient bribe...

CountessDracula · 01/07/2006 00:12

never

Radley · 01/07/2006 00:14

tbh, dd1 (4) and dd2 (7) have them in their rooms, dh has just got sky in our room, AND, if i had it my way there would be 1 television in the house and that is in the living room, but dh thinks different.

He has just bought a 46"lcd and put the 32" in dd2's bedroom much to my annoyance

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