How old before TV in bedroom?

[Mummywalsh]

My 2.5yo DD1 and 19mo DD2 share a bedroom and MIL has just given us a portable TV with DVD player. I've always been against the girls playing in their rooms and believe they go there to sleep, but now I'm thinking would it be such a bad thing for a quiet DVD in the afternoon, definitely not before bed or otherwise. How old were your LOs before they had a TV in their room?

But they don't have a TV in their room and I wouldn't dream of getting them one.

some people just do not have the ability to self limit these things. It is probably THOSE children who are more at risk than the bright sparks who can.....
Have you seen what has happened with gaming in Koreaa?children are literally being sent into rehab to stop them doing it. The TV with no aerial will lead to more gaming. This is the worry.
Maybe the tide need to turn not be held back

Never here.

Brothers and I were never allowed one, despite begging for years. When I was about 26 I finally got a telly in my room and phoned my mum and bragged and she told me off Now-DH and I put it up on the wall and went to the pub to celebrate. About half an hour later, it came down again, knocking the corner off a marble-topped bedside table and scaring the living shit out of my housemate (on the plus side, had now-DH and I been in bed and asleep at the time, we would probably both have pooped in terror). It cost £150 to replaster the wall and although we just stuck it on a table after that we never actually watched it.

My granny is 92 and has one in every room, including her bedroom - five at last count. They are usually all on on different channels and turned up very loud. Apparently the cat likes to watch. Also if you dare to turn them off at the switch rather than just putting them on on standby then she has a meltdown because she thinks they're broken (granny, not cat).

Oldests got two! Has his main one for connecting his laptop up to it and has another as a giant digital photoframe. He is 12.

When they leave home! We have one tv for all which suffices. My 8 yr old daughter has a laptop which she can use for films if she has a sleepover but other than that it's not allowed in her room. She has never questioned it despite having friends with TVs in their room!

I refuse to have a tv in my own bedroom; wouldn't even consider it for a child.

Never. We have one TV in our house and it is in the living room. We also have a no devices in bedrooms rule, which applies to all of us, adults included. Bedrooms are for sleeping, with pre-sleep reading permitted,

My DC are 19 and 17 and we only have one TV in the lounge. They both have had TVs in their rooms since they were 13 or so, but they're only connected to DVD players. My Dd was given an old VHS player and has bought masses of '6 for a pound' videos in charity shops. She has an enormous collection of excellent films.

We don't have TV at all

Wow I'm actually questioning my parenting after reading through this thread
I got DS 2 a TV for his 2nd birthday.
TBF he doesn't watch it in his room all that often as he isn't yet able to turn it on himself, so he mostly plays with his cars and trains and reads his books when he plays in his bedroom.
I will put it in for him sometimes when I'm having a bath as bathroom is directly opposite his room so I can see him with both doors open.
The TV also comes in handy when I'm cleaning up as this way I can have music on in front room whilst he has Paw Patrol or whatever in his bedroom (we are on same floor as I'm in a flat).

I also like to cuddle him in bed some lazy Sunday mornings whilst watching a movie with him.

6 years old.
It helps him to sleep, put it on every night very quietly and he listens to it to sleep. His has ASD and will be up until midnight without it. (Yes, we have tried CD players to play stories through, doesn't work the same).
Don't understand the whole never thing though. I had one growing up, didn't effect my sleep pattern and was nice to escape from the family for a bit, I survived pretty well I'd say. I really don't get the negativity.

Our boys are 10 and 7 and the 10 year old has started grumbling that his friends have Xboxs in their bedrooms. But they haven't ever had screens in their rooms and I'd like to keep that way. They have a shared Xbox in the family room, and there is a snug off the hall that we're planning to turn into a 'hangout' room, but they will still be somewhere we can keep an eye on their conversations with friends/check what they're playing, etc. Not to eavesdrop but just to make sure everything's going OK and that they're safe. Also, as they get older hopefully that will deter them from spending every second on it!! Both are into books in a huge way and when they go to their rooms they read so that would be such a shame to lose.