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TV's in bedrooms - what age?

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lpl · 18/10/2006 11:00

I have a couple of friends with similar aged kids (my ds is 2)who have bought their children tv's for their bedrooms. Just wondering what age is considered appropriate? I must admit I have often thought about it in the hope that it will get me even half an hour extra sleep on a morning! Ds wakes at 5.30am every morning.

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MadamePlatypus · 18/10/2006 14:41

When they can buy one themselves from their Saturday Job.

PizPizPiz · 18/10/2006 14:42

NEVER !! ever !!

Peridot30 · 18/10/2006 14:43

BAd questuin in our house. My PIL bought our kids TV/DVD last year for CHristmas which i was most unhappy about (kids were 4 & 2) they very rarely have it on but always ask 1st. Used mostly for when they are waiting on me getting ready.

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mumeeee · 19/10/2006 16:54

I have 3 teenagers and they didn't get telivisions in thier room until they were 14.

wannaBe1974 · 19/10/2006 17:10

he can have one when he can afford one.

Interesting that so many people say it's not appropriate and yet a survey out recently showed that 50% of 3 year olds have a tv in their bedrooms.

harrisey · 19/10/2006 17:11

Never!
We have one TV in the house and that is it, and we dont plan on getting any others.

BudaBeast · 19/10/2006 17:11

42!

(Which is what I am and I have decided I wnat one!!!)

hulababy · 19/10/2006 17:11

When teenagers - so you can have some time away from them.

One of DD's friends has a big wall mounted TV oin her bedroom. Only 4yo and I just feel it is far too young.

Alibaldi · 19/10/2006 17:12

Never . One in the house is enough.

Philomytha · 19/10/2006 20:23

Never. Only one in the house, and that's on sufferance. Though I wonder what people think of computers in bedrooms... I have a feeling that's going to be the real battle in this household.

SSSpooky · 19/10/2006 20:27

Right now I'd say never but I may change my mind once I have a house full of teenagers wanted to watch awful crap on tv all evening!

aviatrixortreat · 19/10/2006 20:31

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Tortington · 19/10/2006 20:33

secondary school

tortoiseshell · 19/10/2006 20:39

never, would hate the idea of everyone closeted around the house in front of their own screen. We have 1 tv, and 1 only, and not getting anymore. Also computers. In fact for my birthday dh got me a laptop so I could work downstairs when the kids are up.

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franca70 · 19/10/2006 21:28

personally never

stitchthezenmaster · 19/10/2006 21:29

never.
i had a tv n my room aaat uni. didnt do any work the entire time it wasin my room. and that was with only four channels, no video, no dvd etc.
never ever ever.

stitchthezenmaster · 19/10/2006 21:29

never.
i had a tv n my room aaat uni. didnt do any work the entire time it wasin my room. and that was with only four channels, no video, no dvd etc.
never ever ever.

EmmyLou · 19/10/2006 21:39

Never. Well - maybe once they move out and have their own place. They can buy one then if they like.

curlew · 19/10/2006 22:07

Never, if I can hold the line. We have 1 television and that is in a seperate, not hugely comfortable room that is no use for anything else. The computer is in the living room so that I can keep an eye on what's going on. Bedrooms are for being quiet, chatting to your friends, reading, trying makeup and hairstyles, listening to story tapes, relaxing.

notagrannyyet · 19/10/2006 22:36

Not read all of this but I didn't let my eldest 3 have TVs in their rooms until after GCSEs. Looking back I wish I'd made it A levels !
My younger DS aged 13,11,&9 are trying to get TV in their rooms for Christmas...... Not a chance! I will not give in on this !
We do have a spare TV that is wheeled in for the odd programme (usually a footie match), but it is always wheeled out again.

notagrannyyet · 19/10/2006 22:39

I don't allow computers in bedrooms either.
But do let them have radios and CD players.

TeeCee · 19/10/2006 22:40
theunknownrebelbang · 19/10/2006 22:45

Interesting.

DS1 had a TV in his room when he was 10 but rarely watches it. He uses it more for PS2 for him and his brothers, but not extensively. He is very mature and his schoolwork is of a high standard.

DS2 is 10 today, and there is no way he'll have a TV in his bedroom until he's oooh about 50, given his current outlook on life. Lol, of course I'm getting well * had one when he was 10 malarkey...

liath · 19/10/2006 22:46

Never. We have 2 TVs in the house so that's more than enough. I never have the TV on during the day.

DH is one of those people who has to put the TV on as a reflex action as soon as he walks into the room, then its flickflickflickflick.....it drives me POTTY. If there's nothing worth watching TURN IT OFF! He wanted a TV in our bedroom at one point but hit something of a brick wall (me !).

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