Comments on: TVs In Kids’ Bedrooms http://survivingathome.com/tvs-in-kids-bedrooms/ For Moms Who Don't Eat Bon Bons Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:38:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Annette http://survivingathome.com/tvs-in-kids-bedrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-1033 Annette Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:01:09 +0000 http://survivingathome.com/?p=131#comment-1033 Stand Firm! You are definitely not weird! Course, we don't even have a tv hooked up in our house (just for DVDs) so we're probably the weird ones but I would never even think of putting a television in a young child's room let alone a teenager's. Is it any wonder kids are unhealthy, overweight and unmotivated if they spend their free time sitting in front of a screen? And gone are the days of the entire family enjoying an hour program and then turning it off to laugh and talk about it. Now everyone is off on their own with no family interaction at all. Very sad. Stand Firm! You are definitely not weird! Course, we don’t even have a tv hooked up in our house (just for DVDs) so we’re probably the weird ones but I would never even think of putting a television in a young child’s room let alone a teenager’s.

Is it any wonder kids are unhealthy, overweight and unmotivated if they spend their free time sitting in front of a screen? And gone are the days of the entire family enjoying an hour program and then turning it off to laugh and talk about it. Now everyone is off on their own with no family interaction at all. Very sad.

]]> By: Chrys http://survivingathome.com/tvs-in-kids-bedrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-1032 Chrys Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:59:35 +0000 http://survivingathome.com/?p=131#comment-1032 None of my children have TV's in their room, and they won't until they are 18. Right now - at 9, 7 and 5, I think that there is more then enough time spent glued to the TV already without adding on into their rooms. And once they are older, they still won't be allowed because if they did, I would have a harder time controling what they are exposed to. For those same reasons, none of my children will have a computer in their rooms until they are 18 as well. None of my children have TV’s in their room, and they won’t until they are 18. Right now – at 9, 7 and 5, I think that there is more then enough time spent glued to the TV already without adding on into their rooms. And once they are older, they still won’t be allowed because if they did, I would have a harder time controling what they are exposed to. For those same reasons, none of my children will have a computer in their rooms until they are 18 as well.

]]> By: Sharon http://survivingathome.com/tvs-in-kids-bedrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Sharon Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:55:09 +0000 http://survivingathome.com/?p=131#comment-1031 My kids never had a TV in their rooms until last year when the eldest turned 16 (she's the only one with a TV). And that was a mistake. Even she agrees. It's a distraction especially when the task at hand is to read Jane Eyre for a senior essay but the TV is whispering "Turn on Smallville, Turn on Smallville" (my daughter is a big fan of the actor that plays Superman in Smallville). Christina you're not weird you're smart. My kids never had a TV in their rooms until last year when the eldest turned 16 (she’s the only one with a TV). And that was a mistake. Even she agrees. It’s a distraction especially when the task at hand is to read Jane Eyre for a senior essay but the TV is whispering “Turn on Smallville, Turn on Smallville” (my daughter is a big fan of the actor that plays Superman in Smallville).

Christina you’re not weird you’re smart.

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