How do you protect your TV from toddlers?

[marctwo]

I am thinking of getting a new LCD TV but I have 17 month old twins at home who love to hit everything. How to people protect their TV?

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HellDiver said:

Tried mounting the TV on the wall? If they can't reach it, they can't ruin it.

It will be on the wall. But if I mount it high enough for them not to reach I'll end up getting neck ache.

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HellDiver said:

marctwo said:

HellDiver said:

Tried mounting the TV on the wall? If they can't reach it, they can't ruin it.

It will be on the wall. But if I mount it high enough for them not to reach I'll end up getting neck ache.

How tall are your 17 month olds? By the time they're big enough to reach, you should have been able to train them not to touch the TV - heck you can train pups by the time they're a year old...

80cm. It's rather irrelavent now as MrsTwo says no.

Thanks for the responses.

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headcase said:

Plasmas are much more toddler proof and generally much better than LCD anyways.

That's all very well but the model I am looking at is an LCD. A projector would seem to be the best solution (although you'd be constantly repainting to get rid off all the sticky hand prints and crayon).

Ultimately putting it out of reach would seem the only option, until they are old enough to understand the consequences.

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hman said:

The victorians called, they want their parenting skills back.

parapaul said:

To be fair, that's what should happen. Not the first time, but with constsant reinforcement they'll get the message. My kids are a bit older than that now, but even when younger, they understood that they were going to get shouted at if they messed with the TV

Yes, but it's the period when they still haven't got the message which is the problem. At the moment my son takes no notice whatsoever when I tell him 'no' because he just doesn't really have a sense of consequence yet.