So our bedroom SONY LCD TV has stopped working (power board has gone, its 7-8 years old)
Wife wanted a new TV that day so i went and got a 43in Samsung LED
The wife decides the new Samsung can go in the front room and the 3 year old 40in Sony LED (currently in the front room) can go in the bedroom to replace the broken SONY LCD
I can easily fix the SONY LCD as a replacement working power board is £30
No room in the garage (too many bikes!) to have in there so i suggested we replace our son's 24in Argos branded TV (wife has had it since before we met, has a built in DVD player!)
She says its too big for his room (his room is a double and the same size as ours)
So is a 40in TV too big for a 4 year old to have?
My kids are 19 and 22 and neither of them ever had a tv in their bedroom. When they had their own laptops etc we tried to keep screens out of their rooms but it was always a losing battle. 4 year olds don’t need TVs in their rooms. It’s bad for their sleep and mental health in the long run.
Or are you just trolling?
What ?
If your goi g to put a TV in a kids room get whatever size you want.
Whether they should have a TV at all is a different question.
Our lad now has a desktop computer with widescreen which could be used for TV!
Wot docrobster said. My three are all grown up and gone now but none of them ever had a TV in their room.
I am 37, and have a 32" TV in my living room. That's about 0.85" per year. So unless there's a conversion factor for bedroom TV sizes I'm not aware of, one of these should be perfect for your son:
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To small. At 4, both my kids had 80" QLED Dolby surround sound setups in their rooms.
Oh, actually they didn't. They had Lego and Playmobil and stuff to play with.
I don't really see the relevance of screen size.
Whether a 4-year old should have a TV in their room is another matter. I'm a firm advocate of giving kids access to technology and I wouldn't.
4 year olds don’t need TVs in their rooms
Had a TV in my room from aged 5 (not a 40in one though!)
He watches maybe an hour of TV in his room a day whilst playing, he sleeps fine, (7pm till 7am and doesn't wake up)
He already has a TV so that is not what im asking, im asking is a 40in TV too big for a four year old?
Not sure a 4yr old needs a tv in their room.
My experience is that the less "screens" they are exposed to makes for an easier and less frustrating life and bedtimes.
Unless of course you like them watching Tiny Pop in bed till they fall asleep.......in which case size is immaterial.
I call troll. No sensible adult would even consider any television in the bedroom for a four year old.
Edit: My girls are 11 and don't have TVs nor would we let them. Unfortunately they now have iPads (they attend a school that has adopted the 'iPad for Learning' scheme) so they have to have those in their rooms as they need them for study - but they can also access YouTube etc on them.
what im asking, im asking is a 40in TV too big for a four year old?
Unless it falls off and lands on him I can't see how the size is of any relevance at all ( within reason)
I love it here when somebody asks a simple question and instead of an answer gets judged on their parenting skills.
40” does sound a bit big, but depends on the room size.
Sorry, TV is the devil and you’re damaging your kids mental well-being. A 40” TV (especially Sony) will mean that your child will lose all ability to play with toys and will simply burst in to tears when shown Lego
I am not sure the size has much relevance, unless the room is particularly small (which it doesn't sound like it is). Either you have a telly or don't - if you have a spare 40" telly going begging, then why not?
Given that every time my 5yr old daughter gets the chance she stands about 8" from the telly, then a phone screen would be a suitable size.
Got to be a troll, too many triggers for any non mouth-breathing adult;
- TV in an adults bedroom
- TV in a 4 yr olds bedroom (WTactualF)
- "Samsung"
My kids have all had TV's in their rooms since they were old enough to be interested in watching TV.
They use them for Xbox / Netflix / Amazon Prime / DVDs mostly. My 15 year old has two in his room. One for Xbox and one for watching movies.
None of them have watched any broadcast television for years. Kids just don't these days.
Why wouldn't you let a kid have a TV?
If you don't want them to watch it, don't let them.
CABLE GUY!!!! cable guy.... cAbLe GuY
Why wouldn’t you let a kid have a TV?
Because we have two in the house - they don't need one in their rooms.
If you don’t want them to watch it, don’t let them.
We don't let them watch it in their rooms so they don't have them in their rooms.
Why wouldn’t you let a kid have a TV?
Bragging about how awesome you are as a parent? This is STW after all.
We don’t let them watch it in their rooms so they don’t have them in their rooms.
Would that not be the other way around?
Because we have two in the house – they don’t need one in their rooms.
What if they want to watch different things at the same time?
The days of the entire family sitting on the couch watching Morecambe and Wise because your Nana likes at are far behind us.
We currently have 8 TV's in the house.
I don't let the kids play with Lego in their rooms. Clearly i'm some sort of monster.
Just here to check that everyone is being judgey - carry on.
Got to be a troll, too many triggers for any non mouth-breathing adult;
– TV in an adults bedroom
– TV in a 4 yr olds bedroom (WTactualF)
– “Samsung”
Was my first thought too, excellent baiting OP, Well done...
I put a TV in my six year olds room, but took the plug off just to mess with him. Getting him used to being disappointed. Character building innit
I put a TV in my six year olds room, but took the plug off just to mess with him. Getting him used to being disappointed. Character building innit
Pfft...Amateur.
You should have got an analogue TV instead. A few hours looking at static and fruitlessly pressing buttons'll make a man of him.
It worked for me with a 12" black and white portable with a coathanger aerial twiddling the manual tuner in the hope of getting the Sunday night episode of the Professionals.
Wife wanted a new TV that day so i went and got a 43in Samsung LED
The wife decides the new Samsung can go in the front room and the 3 year old 40in Sony LED (currently in the front room) can go in the bedroom to replace the broken SONY LCD
Why don't you ask your wife as it sounds like she wears the trousers in your house.
She says its too big for his room
Oh you did, but thought you'd ask here anyway hoping for some moral support.
Them were the days. Getting up to change channels kept me fit as a fiddle. Twisting the dials helped build the old white matter too. Kids these days don’t know they’ve been born. Luxury, having your mind ruined by a screen. Back in my day it was toxic food colourings and asbestos.
Them were the days. Getting up to change channels kept me fit as a fiddle. Twisting the dials helped build the old white matter too. Kids these days don’t know they’ve been born.
One of the greatest benefits of having toddlers was not having to get up off the sofa to change the channel. Since they invented the remote the need to have children has never been the same.
My three are all grown up and gone now but none of them ever had a TV in their room.
When I were a lad I had to share the cardboard box mattress with my 17 other brother and sisters.
I prefer to be snobby about having TVs in bedrooms but then still sometimes watch stuff on my laptop in bed.
Why don’t you ask your wife as it sounds like she wears the trousers in your house
Lol couldn't be more further than the truth! very laid back and i can do pretty much what i like
Oh you did, but thought you’d ask here anyway hoping for some moral support
Err no i wondered what other people's opinions were on the matter
All a moot point now as he says he likes his small TV so ill have to find another use for it
One of the greatest benefits of having toddlers was not having to get up off the sofa to change the channel. Since they invented the remote the need to have children has never been the same.
Mine used to get me a beer from the fridge on request. Seemed like a good deal to me 🙂
After seeing my nephew go from being a happy little kid (pre xbox and TV in his room) to a 23 year old loner with massive social problems simply because he just stayed in his room, I would say whatever TV you decide maybe try and leave it a few years. I will say however that it was definitely the xbox not the TV that was the problem so maybe just a TV is fine? 40 inch does sound quite big though for such a wee chap.
All a moot point now as he says he likes his small TV so ill have to find another use for it
It's up to you mate but you'll have a devil of a time if you decide later it's not such a good thing.
I will say however that it was definitely the xbox not the TV that was the problem
First it was music, then video, then music again and now video games. Wonder what the youth of today will blame when they’re miserable Middle aged bastards? My money is on the robots.
All a moot point now as he says he likes his small TV so ill have to find another use for it
Attach it to the outside of your house playing a video loop of you berating people for letting children watch television. Think of the irony.
Err no i wondered what other people’s opinions were on the matter
I wouldn't put a TV in a kids bedroom, so my view is neither. HtH.
Mine used to get me a beer from the fridge on request. Seemed like a good deal to me
Gets even better when they're 17 and can drive you back from the pub/restaurant.
Actual footage of a TV in a child’s bedroom. Child just out of frame getting electrocuted.
Didn't we recently have a thread about TVs where we decided 70" was optimal but pretty expensive (diminishing returns et al) so 60" OLED was the sweet spot.
I mean, he'll grow into it, right?
After seeing my nephew go from being a happy little kid (pre xbox and TV in his room) to a 23 year old loner with massive social problems simply because he just stayed in his room, I would say whatever TV you decide maybe try and leave it a few years.
Think kids have a multitude of other devices preventing them from interacting with society and real people like phones and tablets. My kids would prefer to spend the night in Whatsapping their friends rather than actually visiting them and hanging around the wreck like I did as a lad. A huge problem for the entire generation looming I think.
But no issue having a tv in the room so long as you make sure you limit and police the screen time. Hard and will generate a few arguments but being a parent is easy.
The issue about how big the screen is irrelevant, more about having a TV at all. I think 4 is too young for sure. My kids are 11 and 14 and they don't have TV's in their rooms but I probably would let them have TV at their current ages. Luckily we have enough TV's dotted around the house for them to have their own TV time when they need it so they're not withering me for one. Also they only watch YouTube, Netflix and other streaming services which they can get on their tablets and happy to watch their crap on their tablets.
What if they want to watch different things at the same time?
Your bait isn’t working, sorry.
Not bait.
Wisdom. 😉
After seeing my nephew go from being a happy little kid (pre xbox and TV in his room) to a 23 year old loner with massive social problems simply because he just stayed in his room, I would say whatever TV you decide maybe try and leave it a few years.
I’d put good money that there’s more to this story.
yes put it in his room
Why is a difference of opinion considered trolling? Do you genuinely consider it so outlandish that someone might have a different opinion to you?
FWIW I had a TV in my room from around 6 and at 7 I got a Master System because my parents didn't love me enough to buy me a Megadrive. Fast forward 30 years and we have one TV in the house and a million percent more games and consoles than we know what to do with. And yet I found time to get a job, marry, procreate and still do plenty of other shit.
Tl:Dr stop being a judgemental arses spouting nonsense.
I probably wouldn’t but if you feel you have adequate controls in place ‘go for your life’!
