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Re: TV in bedroom
no and hell no.
only two activities happen in our bedroom.
and my kids are practically amish...They rarely use the computer (it's in the living room - they share one old PC) and watch TV maybe twice a month. and no video games (they play at their friend's houses but we don't play them at home). I don't allow electronics in their rooms - phones included.
Yes, we do! I've had a tv in my bedroom since 7th grade. I mostly watch it when getting ready to go somewhere or, now and then, before bed. DH was used to no tv in his room, but now watches before bed a few times/wk. We have only basic cable in there, but also a DVD player.
Our kids can have one if they pay for it themselves. That's what I did, in 7th grade. I always had a tv and then, eventually, cable and a VCR, in my room. My sister and brother did the same, growing up.
I don't have a problem with it. However, I really don't want my kids to have computers in their rooms. I hope to find a way to set that up in a more public area when we get to that point.
ETA: I should add that, even all the years I lived alone, I always had 2-3 tv's (bedroom, living room, and office). Right now, we have 3: bedroom, living room, family room.
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We used to, but I demanded it leave the room when we bought new furniture. We hardly ever watched it, but DH would fall asleep to it sometimes.
My kids will never have tvs in their rooms. Unless they can buy it themselves.
Do you have a TV in your bedroom? Nope, a rule of mine. We have enough excuses to not have sex, we don't need another one.
Also do your kids have one in their room? nope, and I dont plan on them having one.
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No, if anything we watch movies on a laptop.
They will never have a TV in their room. At most we will get a separate monitor set up for kids computer/video games but that will be in a common area when they are teens.
We have one in our room and I hate to admit that we (mainly I) watch it way too much. But DH watches the downstairs (family room) TV way more than I do. We don't have a TV in the living room, so if there wasn't one in our room then we wouldn't have one upstairs at all. And I'm much more comfortable lounging around up here than in the basement.
I didn't have a TV in my bedroom growing up - no way that would've been allowed. I finally got one on my own my senior year of college. At this point I can't see any reason why Lila would need/get one in her room while living at home.
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Do you have a TV in your bedroom? Yes. But I usually only use it for background noise while I'm getting ready. Before kids we occasionally watched an adult movie.
Also do your kids have one in their room? Nope. They probably never will until they are in their teens. We do have a playroom upstairs with a tv that Connor gets to watch while I take a shower.
My confession though..I'm a TV addict. I even have one in the kitchen I watch while cooking dinner
Pre children this was my favorite way to spend the day if I was sick...or if I'd had a *really* long week and DH was working on a Friday night.
Kids won't, though.
We are in the only one TV camp and it is in the living room. We've never had a TV in our bedroom, I've never had a TV in my bedroom.
Max doesn't need his own TV, and I can't see him needing his own TV until he is a teenager.
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We do but it only gets turned on once in a blue moon. We barely turn on the living room one as it is lately as we have zilch free time. The bedroom one was really just to solve those arguments when we both really wanted to watch separate shoes and couldn't compromise.
As for K's room, no and probably not ever. It's a holdover from my childhood. My folks could not have afforded a tv for all five of us kids in our rooms, so it was a luxury item. DH didn't even have a tv growing up, so he sees it the same way. It's just not something K needs.
And side note: as far as computers in kids' rooms go, NO NO NO. Take one internet safety class and you'd agree, shudder. It's not even just the predators, but the info that kids leak out innocently.
We do have one in our room which we turn on maybe 2x a week. Sat morning we turn on Super Why while we lounge in bed. (the only TV the kids actually watch outside of Friday night movie night) and Saturday night DH may turn on Saturday Night Live.
I never had a TV in my room, so don't think the kids will either. although...Audrey has asked lately when she can have one in her room...no idea where that came from!
Do you have a TV in your bedroom? Yes we do, although I usually only use it to listen to the news in the morning while I get ready for work.
Also do your kids have one in their room? DD1 does; however the only time she will usually watch it is if she has friends over. If she doesn?t have a friend over she never wants to be in her room unless it is bedtime. She has basic cable in her room
DD2 does not but she most likely will when she is older.