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Children’s bedrooms
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Children’s bedrooms

In the past a child's bedroom had little more than a toy box, a book shelf and a few posters. Today it looks more like mission control at Houston.

Computers, mobile phones, televisions, DVD players, game machines, and other 21st-century toys fill the room, and often make the child's bedroom the most expensive in the house. Britain's 8- to 16-year-olds have bedroom possessions worth an average of £3.300.

But they don't just have hi-tech items. The average child’s room also has designer clothes, sunglasses, watches, jewellery, and sports equipment. More than four in ten children have rooms that combine home office, mini cinema, and gym. Nine in ten have a TV, and seven in ten a DVD player. Nearly all of them have a stereo system and six in ten have either a personal CD player, iPod, or MP3 player. One in four has their own computer.

With so much to do in their bedrooms. It is no surprise that children spend more time there than anywhere else in the house. One girl spends so long on her mobile phone in her room that her parents have to text her to speak to her. Another child disappears into his room as soon as he gets home from school and plays on his PlayStation until bedtime.

Children's bedrooms have become their kingdoms. Some families rarely do anything all together. People eat different meals at different times, and watch different TV programmes in different rooms.