Hellobee Boards Topic: Will your children have electronics in their rooms?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Will your children have electronics in their rooms? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 21:42:13 +0000 cyneswith on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11506 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:05:34 +0000 cyneswith 11506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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. BabyBear on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11495 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:57:34 +0000 BabyBear 11495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I remember being jealous of those with a landline phone in their room. This is a good question though. It's something that Mr. Bear and I will have to discuss when the time comes. I never had a tv in my room growing up. In fact, my brothers (who are younger) had a tv and gaming console in theirs before I did. I preferred reading books. As for Mr. Bear, he grew up with electronics in his room. So this should be interesting. HabesBabe on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11386 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:54:11 +0000 HabesBabe 11386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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.). mynoahbear on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11375 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:40:21 +0000 mynoahbear 11375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have an iPod/iPad with dock/speakers in the nursery to play music but that's it. hreichard on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11337 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:18:22 +0000 hreichard 11337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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. Andrea on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11336 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:36:24 +0000 Andrea 11336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I always did growing up. Phone, TV, and Nintendo. I was still a good kid and got straight As so I guess my parents didn't think anything of it. I think it will be a judgment call at that time for my own kids. If they are not mature enough, then no. But if I think they can handle it, then yes. looch on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11323 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:19:30 +0000 looch 11323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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! MaisyMay on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11312 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:29:31 +0000 MaisyMay 11312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. Glad to see we aren't alone in that. We plan on one tv, in the living room, and that's it. We have a wii, and by the time we have kids and they're old enough for video games, we may have some system, but it will be heavily monitored and limited. Also, they won't get cell phones very young. We will until it becomes a necessity. Laptops will be used around the family, but monitored. daniellemybelle on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11303 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:19:08 +0000 daniellemybelle 11303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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. Liesal on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11278 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:20:19 +0000 Liesal 11278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Right now, the only electronic that we have in our room is our cell phones. We have a rule that no TV's are allowed in our bedroom. That room is for sleeping and lovin', not watching TV. :) chopsuey on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11266 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:58:39 +0000 chopsuey 11266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No electronics. We'll have a computer in the family room and will take cell phones away at night. No late night talking/texting! venice4504 on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11251 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:26:11 +0000 venice4504 11251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Heck no. Especially since my husband love playing Call of Duty...only in the living room or some other room that I can easily unplug the darn things! Mrs. D on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11214 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:20:46 +0000 Mrs. D 11214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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. mrsjyw on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11207 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:15:51 +0000 mrsjyw 11207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have the same plan as @msmini. No electronics in rooms, all electronics in our den. MsMini on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11203 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:12:50 +0000 MsMini 11203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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 mrsmenow on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11189 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:57:13 +0000 mrsmenow 11189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have 9 year old and she can only have her DS, but she can only play it when we say so. The last 2 years for Christmas my Dad has been telling her he was getting her a TV for her room and I have had to say no. I have told her with the 2 tvs we have in family rooms, she will never get to have her own TV in her room. The same goes for a computer...I am a mean mom:) eeh on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11068 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:29:10 +0000 eeh 11068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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. Ree723 on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11067 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:29:01 +0000 Ree723 11067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. They can have a radio and that will be it. Neither DH nor I ever had any electronics in our room (other than a stereo) and we plan on keeping it that way with our children. Any computer or television time will be in the family room and we do not plan on having any video game systems so that shouldn't be an issue. The first time I ever had a computer or television in my room was when I went away to college and lived in the dorms. So shall it be for our children....and yes, we'll be those old fashioned parents who are so lame (or whatever word they're using in 18 years time!) ETA: We don't have a tv, or any electronics actually, in our bedroom so we certainly won't be putting one in our kids' rooms! mediagirl on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11061 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:22:36 +0000 mediagirl 11061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Oh right! I had a (I'm so old) boom box in my room because I loved music. I had a huge stash of tapes to listen to. Computers in the bedroom freak me out because I watched too many episodes of L&O SVU, Criminal Minds, etc. We'll have a family computer in our loft or family room but for sure not in the bedrooms. cyndistar3 on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11058 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:18:50 +0000 cyndistar3 11058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Later on (perhaps teens) she might have a tv but not yet. I will probably give her a radio or something becuase she loves music but not until she is old enough to not play with it. And we have already decided she won't have a cell phone until we decide she needs one. And when she is in highschool we will probably get her a lap top. Same goes for future children. alongfarview on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11057 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:18:45 +0000 alongfarview 11057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 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! .twist. on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11050 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:08:36 +0000 .twist. 11050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'd like to think not. They have nintendo DS's that they are allowed in their room, but they aren't allowed to play them once it's bed time and they get put away. They won't have TV's or Phones. The boys aren't mine so I can only control what happens at our house, and even then that is limited as well. Once it's our own baby though, that will be a no. I think it'll be a bit of a fight between me & DH when it comes time, because he was allowed all that stuff and I wasn't. I liked not having it, he liked having it. There will have to be some sort of compromise there... ugh! Thankfully that's a discussion that's quite a ways away! mediagirl on "Will your children have electronics in their rooms?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-children-have-electronics-in-their-rooms#post-11037 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:03:54 +0000 mediagirl 11037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My brother and I were not allowed any electronics in our rooms when we were kids. We had books, toys, desks with paper, pencils, etc. I was always so jealous of kids with TVs in their rooms. Some of my friends even had private phone lines in their rooms! (this was before cell phones) If I wanted privacy on a phone call, I had to pull the long phone cord from the kitchen, around the corner and sit in the hallway to the basement with the door closed! Will your children have electronics in their rooms? TV's, computers, cell phones, video game systems?