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Nope. Luckily both my husband and I are on the same page on this one. We don't think it's necessary at all, so we won't do it. We don't even like having a tv in our room, so no way would our kids have one!

I'm okay with our kids having a radio in their rooms and perhaps some handheld gaming devices but they will have to be turned off when we say. We won't allow anything that can access the internet to be permanent in their rooms but they can occasionally take the computer in there (since I can check what they access). Also, I don't mind if they occasionally go into their rooms to talk on the phone but the phones won't be stored there. I think we have to give them a little bit of rope because they need to learn how to make responsible decisions when we aren't standing over them watching every move that way when they are outside the home they will know how to make responsible choices.

We have talked about it, even thought we don't have any kids yet, and we are thinking no. No TV/phone/computer in the room. All the portable electronics we will have a place to store outside their rooms (like in our computer room) so we control the access to it. Most of the toys and such will also probably be kept in a playroom, that way you can actually use their room for punitive groundings/time outs. Also, I think that electronics in the room can be sleep distruptive quite easily, we don't even keep anything other than our alarm clocks in our bedroom either, so we are modelling that type of behaviour

I didn't, beyond a CD player, and I'd like to have the same rule. If we have a house by the time our kids are old enough to want their own electronics, then I'll insist they be in the family/rec room where they have to share and where I can monitor their use and exposure.

No electronics. We'll have a computer in the family room and will take cell phones away at night. No late night talking/texting!

I am going to be strict about this - especially computer/cell phones/whatever devices are available by the time they are using them. I'm with ChopSuey - cell phones and laptops will charge at night in mom and dad's room! And no TVs in their rooms either. Both DH and I had our own bad experiences in childhood b/c of this stuff so we feel strongly.

I don't really know yet. We don't have a TV in our bedroom, but I would like to create a master suite at some point where we go upstairs when the kids are in bed and either read or watch a few programs in our master living area.

As far as kids rooms go, no computer or phones, not sure about the TV. We'll see if they can handle the responsibility. I had one in my room, but my parents solved the issue of me being alone in there and watching TV by giving me an old TV without cable or a remote control. It had a dial and rabbit ears so the reception was horrible!

I will allow my son to have his video game system and TV, but i dont believe kids need to have a cell phone or their own phone line.

I think we're just going to allow for a radio/iPod dock or whatever, at least until he/she is in high school-- THEN maybe a laptop for school work (although some jr highs are expecting laptops now?).

I never could do homework anywhere but in my own room (I couldn't focus), so I wouldn't want to limit him/her to only using the computer in the office/den.

But no to TVs, gaming consoles, any of that. Probably no cell phones until they're in high school, too (and I would get them some super cheesy one that can only call, no texting/web/etc.).

Stereo only. They won't have cell phones until they are old enough to go places on their own (maybe 10?), and those'll be prepaid with maybe 30 minutes on them. I imagine we'll have one desktop computer for kids to use in a public area in the house.