Never! Unless they can afford to pay for the bill of the cable or satellite.

originally posted by verow75

Never! Unless they can afford to pay for the bill of the cable or satellite.

I have a TV in my girls rooms for video's and games only.  The TV's are not connected to cable so I have complete control over what they watch.  My girls are 4 & 6.   I am not sure when I would let them have cable but by the time that day comes, i expect that technology will allow parents to put controls in place to filter inappropriate content seperately for each TV .   I hope that helps.

Not really. I need to time the time they are in front of the tube. That said, I would prefer to have one TV in the household. We don't even have on in our own bedroom. It's too distracting. Our kids have a clock radio and lots of books.

I had a TV in my room growing up and it made it that much easier for me to isolate myself from my family as a teen. I do not believe TV's belong in bedrooms at all.

We have one TV in our house, and basically the only time it's on is when I let the kids watch an occassional movie or after they go to bed and I O.D. on bad television shows.  I've never understood having a TV in a kid's room.  It's isolating.  I'm sure someone will make the argument that then they can go in there and watch it when their friends are over.  But when they have friends over, I think they should be playing, not sitting next to each other, watching TV.  

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I agree about the isolating part. And if my kids are watching something, I want to be hearing what it is and be there to answer questions and know what they're learning. Even if it's a commercial for Chuck E Cheese on PBS, I want to be able to say, "Hey, that's marketing. It doesn't make Chuck W Cheese good." TV in kids room