It has been an ongoing rule since he was very very little and it's in place for a reason, not to be unfair. He will get in to the controls of the computer or tv and change all of the settings or start deleting recorded shows that aren't his, and if he interacts too much with AV stuff he gets irritable and cranky and won't sleep at night. Electronics is his obsession.

We've tried other ways to control this as well but this has been the only way we've come up with so far, and we only have one tv with no intention of buying others. As for computer, he doesn't have his own and we've told him we'll get him his own if he follows the rules and shows us we can trust him long enough to warrant it and he can't seem to do that, and until that happens the computer isn't going to happen, and he knows that.