TV in a childs bedroom

*Page*

Ntlbell,

you dont like it fine you dont have to.
I dont need to explain myself to anyone,


*page*

ntlbell

*Page* wrote: »

Ntlbell,

you dont like it fine you dont have to.
I dont need to explain myself to anyone,


*page*

you don't need to but you started to.

now it doesn't suit you?

*Page*

no i have explained myself more than enough, you are slagging my life style off and i've had enough of listening to you.

So i do not need to explain myself further

Nevyn

ntlbell drop it.

*page* you are completly entitled to raise you child in that fashion and if it works for you then great. Kids should be kids and they should play.

I limit the ammount of time mine have the pc/tv/xbox on and it is great when they take over the sitting room and make forts or set up mini cities, I would usually have music on or the radio, or we all sit and read.

Cabaal

As a person who had a TV in his room on and off when he was growing up I have to recommend against having a TV,

In my view its anti-social and disrupts sleep, if your kid wants to watch tv then he should watch it with everyone else

*Page* I have to agree with many of your views in relation to the use or non-use of TV in the home,.

di11on

No, no and no again. It's not right. Hasn't anyone seen the research that shows how, if kids are exposed to violence on TV (plenty of it in cartoons and before 9 O'clock) they are more likely to demonstrate aggressive, violent behaviour.

TV just has to be censored for young children... any parent putting a TV in their kids room and not supervising its use, is negligent, and I'm not adding, 'in my opinion' as research has convinvingly shown this to be fact.

run_Forrest_run

Hrududu wrote: »

When its the same episode of Lazytown over and over and over again its a different story.

yes you have a good point there!! Barney is beginning to really get on my nerves but sure she loves it so I sit there with her and sing along as my brain slowly dies

dame

Don't worry, it won't last forever.....when she's three she'll be telling you Barney is for babies, Bob and Spiderman are for boys and you'll get to watch Dora over and over.....Ola Feliznavidad!



* Spanish may not be spelt (or used) correctly here.

siochain

Thaedydal wrote: »

I think it is anti social and not a good thing at all.

I fully agree, the standard of TV now is shocking. Some of the TV that’s shown in the early evening is disgraceful. Coronation street, Eastenders etc. is brain washing adults never mind kids. You do your best to bring up a family in a good household yet so many people pump that negative rubbish into their homes.

Sorry back on topics, TV on kids rooms – no chance.

siochain

Cabaal wrote: »

*Page* I have to agree with many of your views in relation to the use or non-use of TV in the home,.

+1 I'm with ya on this one.

*Page*

Simpsons and being gay...

My daughter was in her friends house and came back asking why they were using gay as a bad thing.
to my daughter gay is when a man loves another man or a woman loves another woman. (a family member is gay and so is her god father...seeing two boys hug and kiss and you get questions) anyway i have always told her that its ok and then the simpsons are showing them that its a good way to slag each other...

simpson are on the tell at 6pm, they also state its ok for your dad to strangle you while your mother watches aimlessly

dame

The Simpson's is no longer a kids cartoon really. It may have been once upon a time but it has sort of "grown up" with its' audience.

SarahMc

Back to the OP's question... TVs in children's bedrooms is such a no no!! Research has shown that children who have a TV in their bedroom have lower academic results and social skills than those without.

So many family homes are like bl*ody bedsits!! TVs in kids bedrooms are the norm sadly.

fishdog

The first time I met my daughters (she is 4) teacher the first question the teacher asked me was if she had a TV in her bedroom. From her experience (may years) it made a big difference.

Cabaal

*Page* wrote: »

Simpsons and being gay...

My daughter was in her friends house and came back asking why they were using gay as a bad thing.
to my daughter gay is when a man loves another man or a woman loves another woman. (a family member is gay and so is her god father...seeing two boys hug and kiss and you get questions) anyway i have always told her that its ok and then the simpsons are showing them that its a good way to slag each other...

simpson are on the tell at 6pm, they also state its ok for your dad to strangle you while your mother watches aimlessly

My sister doesn't let her kid watch to much tv,

She mainly leaves her watch Disney films from time to time or Dora the explorer, but her kid saw a episode of the simpsons a few months back and she didn't sleep much that night and when she did she had nightmares.

She's 4 years old,

So I have to agree that the simpsons is not a kids show, neither is south park despite some parents allowing there 8 and 9 year olds to watch it!

Margaret Renton

For my family it's only acceptable option. We don't watch TV, we even don't have one! And we find it really great for family. We have time for ourselves, for reading, listening music, talking. In TV there is absolute nothing worth watching (except for a few educational programmes). We use only DVD on computer and only real good ones for our daughter, no more than 1 hour per day. She adore Sir David Attenborough series and she is only 2.9 year old.

I will find I hope a creche for her with no TV at all, and in school, I hope she will be at this stage that she will find TV just stupid and boring just as we do. I can understand other parents opinion, we all have different points of view about how to bring up our children. I just say how it is in my family.

Ickle Magoo

No TV's in any bedroom here. I never had a TV in my bedroom when I was a kid & didn't miss it. I don't have a TV in my bedroom now & won't put one in the kids rooms. I hate the thought of us all in silence in separate rooms glued to the box...:(

di11on

I just can't believe how people can let young children watch things like the Simpsons and South Park. The fact that we are discussing it like it's something to be debated is absolutely ridiculous! It really bewilders me how so many people succumb to the naive view that because something is "drawn" it is harmless!

What about the bigger fundamental question...

How can this happen? How can a parent think that it's ok for young children to watch these things or have a tv in their room? There must be some big hole in the educational system that needs to be filled. It should be compulsory for people to learn some basic psychology, child and adult psychology. I mean, it's so much more important to know that leaving a kid in front of tv indefinitely has determinental effects to a child's mental and physical development than to know how to bake a quiche or prove a theorem (not to say that those latter things aren't important).

When you think of it... one of the most important things we will ever do in life is bring up our kids, and I believe our collective performance in this task goes a huge way towards determining the shape of society as a whole, yet we can come out of university with a PhD and not have spent a single half-hour learning about how to bring up a child properly. I've read a lot and there are some basic fundamental things that you need to know and that no-one will tell you unless you go seeking it out yourself.

davejones

Cabaal wrote: »

My sister doesn't let her kid watch to much tv,

She mainly leaves her watch Disney films from time to time or Dora the explorer, but her kid saw a episode of the simpsons a few months back and she didn't sleep much that night and when she did she had nightmares.

She's 4 years old,

So I have to agree that the simpsons is not a kids show, neither is south park despite some parents allowing there 8 and 9 year olds to watch it!

Who in their right mind would let a child watch South Park?
That's just bad parenting.
Maybe the old Simpsons but definitely not south park.

luckat

You get out of a kid what you put in.

If your kid learns music, reads and discusses books, listens to the radio, talks to adults and to other children, makes things with his or her parents and with other kids, plays pretend games and charades and board games, does puzzles, and so on - then you'll get an interesting, intelligent, well socialised, polite, nice, successful adult.

If your kid ingests TV all the time - you'll get a couch potato.

Your choice, really.

Just wanted to say I think it's a terrible idea to have TVs in bedrooms. Myself and my siblings had our own TVs from the age of 12 or 13, and while it seemed good at the time, I think it made everyone even more anti social. I'd never even see my brother and sister most nights! (I rarely watched my TV, preferred to sit in the living room). I'm just glad we didn't have TVs even younger, at least we had our early childhood to play outside etc. I don't like the TV in the kitchen either, my dad insists on putting it on during mealtimes and I find it really irritating. I like to talk to my family during meals and I end up having to talk over Eastenders and Corrie. It's so antisocial and I think it's 'chavvy' tbh. I like having the TV in there sometimes when I'm cooking a big meal, to watch the news or a documentary but not while eating.

I wouldn't go as far as to ban TV completely, and I don't think it's always rubbish. There are a lot of interesting programmes and I enjoy watching it on a Friday or Saturday night in, but I think most people watch waay too much and too much crap like the soaps. I watch the news if I'm home when it's on and I have several guilty pleasure shows like Ugly Betty that I'll watch if I'm not going out anywhere, but I agree that too much TV melts your brain. It's so passive. Much better to limit TV time and then encourage reading books, playing outside etc. When I have kids I'll let them watch an hour or so of children's TV a day, max, and then unplug the telly so they can do something else. I definitely wouldn't put a TV in a child's room, its way too antisocial!

lucyburn

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

No TV's in any bedroom here. I never had a TV in my bedroom when I was a kid & didn't miss it. I don't have a TV in my bedroom now & won't put one in the kids rooms. I hate the thought of us all in silence in separate rooms glued to the box...:(

Agreed TV's in a childs bedroom is a really bad idea.How can you ensure that what they are watching is suitable? you can't!
I would limit the amountof telly a child watches to maybe an hour maybe two day(even that may be too much)

MagicMarker

I have to echo other posters sentiments in that i also think it's a very bad idea to have a tv in a child's room.

Also, i like where *page* is coming from in her parenting style and would probably adopt a similar style myself. If i had kids that is.

undecided

We have TVs in both kids bedrooms but neither are rarely used i'd say once a month if that. As a rule if it's dry outside TV is not allowed on and they are out playing. On an Occasional Sat evening We all snuggle up and watch a movie with popcorn. Other than that not used much only reason they have them is we got them of my brother for nothing. Also neither are connected to cable.

Just to put a spin on this my 4 yr old came home from school yesterday saying that he was watch a santa movie with elves in school. I asked why they were watching TV instead of doing work and he said "oh it was at TV time". So much for education! It's bad when parents rely on TVs but teachers - I think its a joke!

*Page*

my daughters day care do a tv time thing not for the schooliesbut for the toddlers and waddlers
when i noted complaint i was told the other parents had requested it.

i was shocked

parsi

We cancelled Sky to much groaning from the kids in August but it has made a lot of difference. Now the childrens channel they can view are CBBC and CBEEBIEs which are interesting, varied and quite educational (Auntie Mabel is good on cbbc and Terry Wogan does a great story telling ). Of course that's when we choose to have the Tv on. Before we cancelled they seemed to have a diet of Power Rangers.

They don't have a TV in their room and we don't plan one. There is a DVD player in the play room for rainy days but as often as not they give up and start playing with their toys in the middle of it.

fishdog

Now the childrens channel they can view are CBBC and CBEEBIEs which are interesting, varied and quite educational

Also no adds!

Saintly

I agree that tvs in bedrooms are a big no -no. Apart from anything else, our yearly fire safety talk is run by a guy with 30 plus years experience in the fire service. He has attended house fires caused by tvs catching fire in children's bedrooms - with tragic consequences (children switching tv on late at night, leaving it on etc). His whole theory is the less electric items in a child's room the better - his story always stuck in my mind. Apart from the fireman's scare tactic, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose to put a television in a child's room. There is no need for it and no discernible benefit for a child imo.

Tzetze

l3LoWnA wrote: »

Aren't there so many violent kids programmes (cartoons) these days? Horrible.

Agreed. Wasn't like that in my day with only Tom 'n Jerry, Roadrunner, Catch the pigeon... Oh wait, nevermind.

I agree that television in general isn't healthy for kids (or adults). But I wonder, how many of you parents (slamming kids tv) will admit to watching soap operas for 5 hours a week or more?

With friends like these, who needs enemas?