What should a 14 y.o. have in their bedroom?

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Our 14 y.o. recently went to visit a friend from her class at her home.

During the debriefing interrogation on her return it turns out that her friend has a computer terminal in "her room" on the internet and with a 19" widescreen LCD display.

She uses this to play DVDs and music from the net.

I did consider getting her a 32" LCD TV but still thinking about that but thought that a computer was a bit over the top.

Am I behind the times?

Tony
 
it can be useful to be friendly with the parents. then you can ring and say you hear their daughter has a 32" LCD in her room and what brand do they recomend?

sometimes the parent might say "no she hasn't" or something similar.

this weakens your daughter's argument that "everyone else's dad buys one"
 
Perhaps I am a bit old fashioned?

There was no answer when I asked what her friend's dad does for a living!

When I was 14, I knew exactly what everyone in the street did for a living!

The next door neighbour "travelled in stockings" for example!

I think that some job descriptions have changed a little since then!

Tony
 
How big is her bedroom anyway? I used to know a bloke with a 47" plasma in his tiny front room, it was like sitting in the very front row at the cinema :shock:

For the price of a 32" you can get her a basic computer and a smaller screen. Or get her an lcd tv that has vga input for a computer. Then she's got both. Or you could get her the 32" and a PC, but that would be spoiling her. (Says me! All jealous :( )
 
I always think about it this way.

32" TV with computer/ipod/mobile phone or...........................hormonal 14/15 year old boy.

Does that make it any easier??
 
No! No! No! Don't be tempted to put a PC in her room. As part of the training for a youth club that I help at sometimes, I sat through a child protection course. The bloke who was giving the talk works on the internet child abuse team of a local police force. He urged us not to let teenagers have PC's in their bedrooms. It is not a reflection on them or because we don't trust them, rather, that we don't trust others out there on the net. One of the first things that those sickos that groom young people over the internet try to do is separate (emotionally) kids from their parents. It is far better to have a PC in a communal area where you know what is going on.

Check out the Think You Know website published by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) Your kids should already know about it as they get taught about it in school.
 
No! No! No! Don't be tempted to put a PC in her room. .... ....... It is far better to have a PC in a communal area where you know what is going on.

Very sound advice for most teenagers. The risks of a non parental monitored connection to the internet are very real and potentialy dangerous for impressionable and/or vulnerable teenagers.

Provide a PC but without un-monitored internet access. For access to internet sources they can use the house ( parental monitored ) PC and a memory stick to copy files to their PC as needed.

Giving a child a "life of their own" in their bedroom is almost like saying the parents don't care if their child wants to live apart from the family and then providing all the resources for a separate life.
 
the best thing she should have in her room is homework ,homework, homework, books ,books, books, and a radio, plus a teddy :lol: :wink: after that she can go out :wink:
 
She uses this to play DVDs and music from the net.

Do her parents know what she is downloading, legal or illegal stuff?
They could be getting a knock at the door because copywrite infringement or stealing is now getting to be a real pita for record and film companies, who are jumping on people who upload or download restricted material.
 
(I don't know the answer to this)

If you have broadband to the house, and a router to the various rooms, can youy instal firewall and NetNanny or something at router level?

No doubt if you try to restrict access on her own PC, she will be able to run rings round you and take it off again.
 
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bili ,dont for get the books and home work ,teddy is called little Mo :lol: u cheeky little chappy u :lol: :lol:
 
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