teenager. i.f their marks are good and they behave themselves most of the time. i think it's a good thing to let them have so you can take it away when they start getting in trouble lol.

The only TV my bro had in highschool wasn't connected to cable or satallite, so he could only really use it for videogames... which was just as bad as 6 hours of tv shows.

I think if you have parental controls so they can't watch inappropriate tv shows it's ok, as long as their grades are good and as long as they have time limits.

as soon as me and my brother had separate rooms (around 5 years old) there was a .t.v in my room. but my dad knew how to punish me with it... if i did something wrong he would take away the cable line. i didn't have game systems so there was nothing i could do with it once that cable was unplugged, and i had no idea (at the time) how to use a coat hanger for an antenna...

so for my children they will have one as soon as they request one. and i will lay down ground rules for it.

i see no reason why a child would need a tv in their room.

i got one for christmas when i was 13 or 14. i guess if they want one around that age i won't see a problem with it.

my child will have one in his room when hes responsible enough to show me he wont sit in front of one in the liveing room 24/7

i ahd one in my room since i was 6
but i hated TV and i still hate TV
i just dont like watching it

TV has replaced the creativity from children. What happened to going outside and building forts or playing kick ball? What happened to coloring books and play dough and making things from construction paper. Why are USA kids grades lower than in some other countries? These are only a few reasons I disagree with having a TV or phone in a childs room. How I wish I could turn back time and take back the things we alloed in our daughters room...........Not to mentions how obese American have become, because they are allowed to stay holed up in their room watching tv or playing games on it, instead of gettting outside riding their bikes or running and playing getting exercise. I would however, allow them to have a TV by the time they got into high school, provding they kept their grades up and did other activities. HAae you seen the violoence and sexual nature of whats on TV today....and the language thats allowed to be used...Pretty sad when your 5 year old nephew comes up to you and wants to know what a wet dream is...................where did he hear this? TV.....

I am not a big fan of television in rooms. I do think that if a teenager does have good grades in school and good behavior, then a television can be considered. I would not allow cable television until a child is a lot older, around 15 or 16 years old.

As a professional who works in schools, it really bugs me when I am at a meeting regarding a child who has academic or behavior problems and find out there is a television in the child's room. When I am working with some of these children, they tell me how they can't fall asleep without the television on or they state if they can't sleep they will just get up and watch television - the one in their room. These are elementary age children. Often times, these children seem very tired in school. I honestly don't think most parents would allow this but it is sometimes very hard to know if your children are doing this if you don't have control over the television.

I do feel strongly that a child shouldn't have internet in their room. We will cross that bridge when we come to it as the world will be a completely different place then. Who knows what life will be like, technologically speaking, when my children are tweens or teens.

I feel that even having a video game system in the child's room could be a little dangerous - tempting. Video games are fun! If you have a child/teenager who is really into video games, it would be hard to fall asleep at night when you have easy access to the video game (...I just need to get beyond level 9)

Gosh, we just moved and now the computer is in our room. It is more difficult to just fall asleep without checking email/forums....the issue is temptation. Then again, my issue could be pregnancy insomnia

Never. T.V. is the tool of the devil

She can either watch tv with us in the living room or she can do without. I might be okay with letting her have a tv set and a dvd player without cable access, but even then I don't really like the idea of her being locked away in her room. I'm kind of torn on that. But definitely no cable of her own - there's too much crap on tv.

my kids sure will have a tv will cable access. i can use the parental controls for what channels that i dont want them to watch. bad stuff is everywhere now a days . sheltering a child is gonna make things any better.

Yes and no. I will let my kids have a tv but no cable. Main reason I will let them have the tv is because I don't want to have to see their video games all the time. My husband wants them to play video games (he is an avid gamer) but I really hate whenever I want to watch something on tv and someone is in the middle of a big fight and get save their game.

I really don't think that they should have cable though. Too much crap on it.

i think i was about 13 or so...my parents had the tv parent thing set too..so you could only watch certain shows that were rated "Y" for young or w/e or "T" for Teen...and there was a curfew during school..if the tv was caught on the cable cord was unhooked for a week haha

I'm not a big tv freak. sometimes i swear i can actually feel my brain cells dying when i watch it (flavor of love and other annoying reality shows, anyone?) i think that tv represses intellectual development in some instances. Instead of relying on their imagination and working that creative part of the brain it seems that most children today expect to have everything spelled out for them in detail and don't even try to take mental leaps or reason or imagine. Now I do allow my one year old to watch barney and baby einstein every once in a while when i need a serious break from building block towers and reading chicka chicka boom boom. but will I allow him to have his own tv in his bedroom? Heck, no. And not so much for the content of the programs aired, more because I actually want him to learn to use his own brain. Logic, reason and creativity are awesome qualities. A little tv won't hurt but a lot leaves you brain dead.

*applause* ^^

Well, since i slept with my mom til i was in 8th grade...
(i had a sleeping disorder from the time i was 3 months... i would forget to breath..and my mom had to wake me up..)
anyways.. i had the tv in her room and we would watch the news before we went to bed but nothing else..
For my 14th birthday (the year i started sleeping on my own) i got a TV, DVD player, and VCR for my room... i have always had cable... but i think that is because i would rather watch TV with my parents b/c i do not like to watch it alone, and i rarely use my TV and stuff in my room...