Effects Of Television

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Effects of television on children Television has brought many changes in our life, while many have benefited us others have harmful effect . Television is the most prevalent media that effect kids' lives. But how much effect it has on children depends on many factors: how much they watch, their age, they watch it alone or with adults, do they discuss what they watch on television with their parents or not. In my opinion television has negative effect on children's life. with most of the parents working there is nobody to keep check on kids nowadays. Most of the time these children are at home alone and television has taken the place of babysitter. Television has great influence on children; they quickly learn whatever they watch. Violence is one of the major source generally portrayed in cartoons which has resulted in aggressive behavior in children. Another effect caused by television is childhood obesity resulted by excessive marketing in junk food to young children. it has been noticed that 40% of commercial ads on television is targeted on young audience for candies, sweet cereals, chocolates, burgers etc. Another negative impact is sexual messages children get by watching television. Now a days it has become great concern for all the parents, as sexual content shown on television may result in early sexual contact with destruction in healthy child development. Watching television may result in other problems such as lack of focus, ability to pay attention, lack of concentration etc. are encountered in children who watch excessive television .It has been noticed that children who watch excessive television perform poorly in schools . For instance children who has t.v in their bedrooms scored lower than students who don't have t.v . Hence it can be concluded that excessive watching of television is harmful for children as it result in
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