Comments on: I want my BTV – Bedroom TV! http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/18/i-want-my-btv-bedroom-tv/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:53:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: lynners http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/18/i-want-my-btv-bedroom-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-64013 lynners Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:23:27 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1033#comment-64013 I didn't have a tv in my room, but I also had free access to the one in the living room. TV time was also family time - the 'rents would make me watch tv with them the night before an exam. They're weird. I didn’t have a tv in my room, but I also had free access to the one in the living room. TV time was also family time – the ‘rents would make me watch tv with them the night before an exam. They’re weird.

]]> By: ancient one http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/18/i-want-my-btv-bedroom-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-63993 ancient one Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:50:42 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1033#comment-63993 I didn't have a TV in my room when I was growing up (yes, they actually had TV's back then), and I definitely don't let my kids have a TV or a computer in their room. I have a teen, and while it is highly tempting to have her stay in her room all day, it definitely isn't healthy. I also want to keep track of what the kids are looking at, both on TV and on the Internet, so we keep TVs and Computers are in a public place. It's hard enough to get them to do their homework in a timely manner, and a TV in their room wouldn't help. I didn’t have a TV in my room when I was growing up (yes, they actually had TV’s back then), and I definitely don’t let my kids have a TV or a computer in their room. I have a teen, and while it is highly tempting to have her stay in her room all day, it definitely isn’t healthy. I also want to keep track of what the kids are looking at, both on TV and on the Internet, so we keep TVs and Computers are in a public place. It’s hard enough to get them to do their homework in a timely manner, and a TV in their room wouldn’t help.

]]> By: Ben http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/18/i-want-my-btv-bedroom-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-63971 Ben Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:46 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1033#comment-63971 I didn't have a TV in my room growing up, but I had free access to the family tube in the living room most weekends. Other than my dad storming in to turn it off and exhort us to head outside for fresh air -- which was BO-ring compared to the newfound glory of Cable TV in those days, let me tell you -- I watched probably waaaaay too much TV as a grade schooler from perhaps 1978-1985. The ironic postscript to this is that I have completely come around to my dad's view that too much TV is probably not good for the kids -- now that I have two of my own. So while my kids are allowed to catch about 1/2 hour of TV after daycare each day, the standard is that only Mommy and Daddy can turn it on, and only we can choose what to watch. (Alternately, we let them choose between two acceptable options.) This isn't based on research saying TV is bad (most of which is just bad science, IMHO), just a gut feeling that I'd rather see the kids doing creative, active play than staring at the tube. All that being said, the demonization of parents who allow their young children to watch <i>any</i> TV at all continues apace. It seems like I can't go even a few months without reading some news article, credulously reported, on how TV (or daycare, or moms having jobs) is creating a cohort of ADHD-afflicted future supercriminals. All things in moderation, people! I didn’t have a TV in my room growing up, but I had free access to the family tube in the living room most weekends. Other than my dad storming in to turn it off and exhort us to head outside for fresh air — which was BO-ring compared to the newfound glory of Cable TV in those days, let me tell you — I watched probably waaaaay too much TV as a grade schooler from perhaps 1978-1985.

The ironic postscript to this is that I have completely come around to my dad’s view that too much TV is probably not good for the kids — now that I have two of my own. So while my kids are allowed to catch about 1/2 hour of TV after daycare each day, the standard is that only Mommy and Daddy can turn it on, and only we can choose what to watch. (Alternately, we let them choose between two acceptable options.) This isn’t based on research saying TV is bad (most of which is just bad science, IMHO), just a gut feeling that I’d rather see the kids doing creative, active play than staring at the tube.

All that being said, the demonization of parents who allow their young children to watch any TV at all continues apace. It seems like I can’t go even a few months without reading some news article, credulously reported, on how TV (or daycare, or moms having jobs) is creating a cohort of ADHD-afflicted future supercriminals. All things in moderation, people!

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