Anonymous wrote:How about don’t buy one at all.

That would be a sad childhood.

My son has his in a TV room. He’s just playing regular boys games and doesn’t game online.

No.

Blended family- 14 year old who wasn't allowed one in the room is now thriving.

Now 17 year old who had one in his room as young as 11/12 now has a poor relationship with technology.

Nooooooooooo

It’s fine. You know your kid.

We have ours in the basement. No screens in the bedrooms

Ours is in the TV room that also has the computers.

How about don’t buy one at all.

Anonymous wrote:Do you allow your teen to have their PC they game on in their bedroom?

No. That’s the dumbest thing you could do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. Should be in high traffic area of house for accountability. Not basement, not bedroom.

Yes, I just said basement and this is better advice. My kid is 18 now and considering you are talking about parental controls and wifi, I’ll assume yours is much younger. If you have space, do this.

+1 We would never allow a gaming PC in bedroom, but we've been having issues with kid in basement with gaming PC because we're not walking around there often enough to supervise and have been realizing that kid has gradually been finding a way around the various parental controls we've installed.