My boys are only (sickness excepted) allowed to watch TV one afternoon on a weekday, and then on family movie night (Saturday). We had dreadful issues with whinging and nagging until I came up with my brilliant (she says modestly) solution - before being turned off the TV is set to bluescreen. The child lock is on the box, so all I have to do is hide the remote and there's nothing they can do about it. They don't even bother nagging any more. If only all the other whinge-worthy issues were as easy to solve.
The boys are very much nicer without TV in the morning.
