In this essay I will be talking about how children are affected by television. Although many parents these days do not want their children to watch television, there are a lot of educational shows available today. Many parents may not want their children to watch modern television, and I would have to tell those parents that there are some shows out there these days that are very educational and they are aimed towards the young. Watching the educational cartoons can be very helpful for a child’s mind. There can be positive results emotionally, physically, and psychologically.
Vulgar language routinely appears in programs and movies which is accessible to youth. It is realistic and believable to younger youth which can lead them to aggressiveness. As with our American youth viewing these ideas, these images are imposed on the viewers, especially the younger generation. There is a huge amount of younger children that sit and watch television for many hours. In doing that it will handicap their brains.
Censorship in television really relies on the person whom is watching either TV or a movie. But in most cases there is an underage kid who cannot watch certain things that should be censored and not all channels and movies are censored. Programs shown over television may contain offensive language or visuals, which may be harmful for the viewers like children. I believe that all programs on television should be censored by the government or a responsible group or even
Therefore, they can develop an appetite for unhealthy food. In addition to this, watching TV will take away the time from running, jumping or doing activities that can burn calories. Secondly, the more TV children watch, the more likely they are to have trouble falling asleep or to have an irregular sleep schedule. For example, when having TV in their bedroom, children will loose sleep only because chasing an soap opera. Thus they will become less alert during the day, and this results in poor school performance.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
But if a kid is left alone or unsupervised they could watch shows that encourage them to act differently than usual. Shows on MTV like “Skins, Jersey Shore”, and Jackass could cause them to mimic and use the words they say on these shows or movies (MTV Bad Influence). Of course not all of what they say on these shows is bad but granted a bunch of the shows on MTV aren’t the greatest shows for a little kid to watch but are also meant for older people. If you left a kid alone and the kid knew how to look for channels with no parental controls on the receiver box, your kid could end up watching Jackass or Viva la Bam. Now nobody wants their kid to watch those shows because they could learn from the bad behaviors that these shows air on TV.
She believed “a pattern of repeated actions. Clusters of schemas developed into later concepts” Media reports have an influence on the way children play because news reports that are on the television and in newspapers will make parents not want to let their children leave the house because of what may be happening in surrounding areas. Technology will also restrict children from playing, this could be because of game consoles or television programmes. This is because children are more interested in playing on the latest games and watching their favourite television programmes this will cause obesity in children because they will not be getting the required amount of exercise
However, some children don’t get enough exercise because they watch a lot of TV and it’s hard for full time employed parents to focus on their children’s physical activities. Therefore, their children can end up very unhealthy and obese. Obese means being overweight due to the lack of exercise. Children experience may activities during recess. For example, there was a group of children playing hide and seek; others were taking turns on the slide.
“Most adults, has some concerns for their children watching those shows. They had a thought that they might influence their kids to do some bad things in life because of the violence in the shows”(Feinstein 2). But that was not the only thing that they might have thought would influence their kids, “comedians were now on television too, and it was big for them because they could say stuff they could not say on the radio” (Adam 2). That did not top their daughters and sons from watching television; it is not like they could watch it all the time. Plus, there were only a few
Since the advent of cable television, there have been more and more fascinating programs sticking viewers, especially children, into the screen. This, therefore, creates certain complaints that it is wasteful your time watching TV. However, with all the benefits it provides, television is really worth watching. One of the strength points making television much more preferable than other means of information – supply, such as newspaper and radio, is that it can provide news together with animated pictures and lively sounds. Thus, viewers can get more details of the news and enjoy it much more than reading lots of words in newspaper or listen to voices on radio only.