[Closed] 40in tv for a four year old?

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?

Crack on. What harm can it do...?

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’!

I wouldn't put a TV in my kids room. Personal choice. Eldest is 6. But then I don't let him have his tablet in his room either as he wouldn't play with anything. Just watch bloody Ryan's world.

I had a TV from aged 6 in of our room as my sister and I were banned from the lounge by the step monster. But that's a different story.

Got to ask: how many of you who won't or didn't allow your kids a TV in the room let them have laptops or smartphones in there? Same thing imo. Screen is a screen.

Think I had an old B&W one in my room from around 6, when I inherited a ZX81 and wanted to spend hours typing in lines of basic only to have to do it all again next time I wanted to use it as I didn't have a tape drive.

I was about 13 when I got a TV in my room. It was black and white though 🤣

Our kids are 17 and 14 now, they've never had TVs. If they want to watch telly there's three around the house they can use. They've had phones and laptops since they started secondary school, but phones stay downstairs at night.

If you think it's TVs in bedrooms turns kids into a social recluse, wait till you have a 14 year old daughter with a bigger collection of "young adult" dystopian fiction that rivals a branch of Waterstones.

Why is a difference of opinion considered trolling? Do you genuinely consider it so outlandish that someone might have a different opinion to you?

Personally I do feel it is outlandish to consider a tv in the bedroom of a 4 year old child. Yes. Yes I do. Absolutely.

I put a telly in our six year old's room so he could play minecraft with his sister on it, she's four. They've built massive world's in there, I don't really understand any of it.

A mate was skipping a 42" HD telly a few weeks ago as no-one wanted it for free so the kids got that to play on.

It's not connected to anything other than the old xbox and that's not online. I don't think any harm will come from it, in fact come to think of it they're not really using it much anymore.

It's you tube that will turn them inside out mentally. Without supervision they'd happily watch american teenagers playing games for 12hours every day on you tube.

no way in hell am i connecting their bedrooms to youtube.

Kids need their own space, for sure.

But that should not be somewhere that they can be influenced without your consent or knowledge. TV now is not the 3 channels we grew up with in the 70's and 80's. Nevermind the potential hell that is Social Media.

I would have thought that a childs time in their own space should require imagination, problem solving, searching for stuff to do. Not being spoonfed corporate entertainment or social media poison.

So I would not allow any kid a TV or Screen in their room. In a shared space thats fine.

If there were gifs integrated here, a triggered gif would be useful right now!

There are no circumstances where is is acceptable to smack a child.

There are no circumstances where is is acceptable to give smack to a child.

Oh yes there are... when they need to get some rest.

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'm not an antisocial loner because I stayed in my room, I stayed in my room because I was an antisocial loner.

Why don’t you ask your wife as it sounds like she wears the trousers in your house.

I don't think they had 40 inch TVs in 1973.

Depends how close you sat to them 🙂

If you're a chav then yeah go for it. If you're a normal functioning individual, then don't be ridiculous! 😀

We use a 65" TV as the lid on our 18 month old's cot so I think it's fine.

OK...... escrs.......

Your justification for letting a 4 year-old have a TV in their room is that "well I had one when I was five."

So YOUR PARENTS gave you a TV at age 5 so it must have been OK, then? REALLY?

Just how far does this way of thinking go?

Do yourself a favour and have a read of Phillipa Perry's book: "The book you wish your Parents had read (and your children will be glad you did.)"

Jesus!.... Our job is to be BETTER than our parents. Not to reinforce or repeat the same old mistakes.

Our job is to be BETTER than our parents.

I'm much better than my parents.

They only let me have a 12" black and white portable with a manual tuner and I had to share it with my two brothers.

My kids all have their own HD 32 inchers with Netflix and everything.

I am totally winning at this parenting mallarkey.

Just make sure they can access porn. Otherwise, what's the point of having a TV in your bedroom?

A genuine question for all the "OMFG A kid with a telly?" haters.

What is it that you think they're gonna watch that's so horrifying?

Once they outgrow CBeebies, kids just don't watch broadcast TV any more.

My kids watch Netflix ( which I can see in the Account settings exactly who has watched what and when), Amazon Prime ( same), the youngest watches YouTube now and again ( again, I can see what he's been watching on the youtube account) They play Xbox (over which I have complete control via Microsoft parental settings ) and DVD's (which I bought)

The parental broadband controls stop them using the TV browsers to watch anything of a more adult nature.

None of their TV's actually have an aerial connection anymore and none of them have even noticed.

4G phones? Now there's the real issue.....

Jesus!…. Our job is to be BETTER than our parents. Not to reinforce or repeat the same old mistakes.

Sweet! I’m full of win then. Both my parents were barely functioning alcoholics and my Dad was also extremely physically and mentally abusive. So if I let my 3 and 6 year olds have 90” TV’s in their rooms and only feed them Haribo m still way in front.

Thanks Simon! The TV’s are getting ordered tonight

#betterthanmyparents

Edit - I don’t know what is scarier, the seemingly rabid opinions of some in this thread or the fact that Perchy seems to be the sensible one.

I do know, it’s the second one.

For the record we have one TV in our house, but I wouldn’t judge anyone for letting their kids have one.

None of their TV’s actually have an aerial connection anymore and none of them have even noticed.

True

No difference between a TV and an ipad if its all youtube, netflix etc.

Our job is to be BETTER than our parents. Not to reinforce or repeat the same old mistakes.

My parents were and still are fantastic, I had a TV in my room. I’m not sure a book on parenting is necessary. In fact I’d ask why you thought you needed a book to be a good parent.

What is it that you think they’re gonna watch that’s so horrifying?

For me it has absolutely nothing to do with shielding them from anything horrifying, it's simply that I really do not see why a four year old needs a television (or any other electronic device) that is only accessible in their bedroom.

I had a TV in my room.

At four years old?

At four years old?

About 6. I was replying to the book on parenting.

If you put a t.v in room don’t forget to plug a PlayStation into it as well

Already have for both mine.

I think it all depends on how far away the child is sat from the TV. As long as they can be far enough away from it a 40" TV is fine. Don't let them sit too close though otherwise their eyes will go all wonky and that would be poor parenting.

I've got a 4 year old. The idea of putting a screen in his room seems ludicrous to me.

We're not technophobes, he's even got a his own Samsung tablet, but this is used in a family space.

40in tv for a four year old?

Seems like a bargain to me Plus you can hang it on the wall, unlike a four year old🙂

So YOUR PARENTS gave you a TV at age 5 so it must have been OK, then? REALLY?

Well my parents didn't let me spend my entire life on it so I dont see the problem. I had plenty of stuff going on beyond the TV, it just wasn't a big deal. Conversely out daughter doesn't have a TV of her own as we know full well she would never be off it, it's bad enough with the stacks of books she has. Shock horror, parenting choices are subjective, whoda thunk it!

The problem is when something is subjectively acceptable from one person's point of view but, in reality, objectively a poor choice.

It's not "triggered" or "shock, horror" judgemental outrage here. Lots of people clearly believe a TV in a 4 year old child's room is an inappropriate choice and I think they're right.

Much like feeding a kid Mars bars for breakfast. You can do it if you want, it's your subjective choice, but that doesn't make it right.

Cant believe this thread is still going!

So for those who didn't read my last reply the boy says he is happy with his 24in TV which he watches an hour a day max and its normally more educational type programs with the odd kids film now and again

As for the 40in TV its now fixed and living in the garage and connected up to the sound system

Thanks for all your concerns about my parenting skills but were doing just fine

Now i just need to sort the lock on the outside of his door, makes sure he cleans the whole house (he's stopped drinking the bleach and now pours it down the toilet!) and makes my dinner every day, i mean what are children for!!

The problem is when something is subjectively acceptable from one person’s point of view but, in reality, objectively a poor choice.

Very true. But I've seen nothing objective thus far to convince me this is one of those choices. Just a lot of opinions.

WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

The problem is when something is subjectively acceptable from one person’s point of view but, in reality, objectively a poor choice.

Maybe is your reality and a few others but not in everyone’s as it quite easy to control what they watch still.