The Effects Television Can Have on Children

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The Effects Television Can Have on Children The television has many good qualities. It can provide educational shows on channels, like the History Channel or the Discovery Channel. It can be used for informational purposes like the Weather Channel or for the News. It can also be used for entertainment, like when someone wants to sit down after a long day, relax, and watch his or her favorite shows. The problem with television is if it is not regulated and monitored closely in one’s home it can have very negative effects on children. I think the television plays a very big part in children obesity. When I was a kid we only received channels that were broadcasted over the air, so we had very limited television at home. I had maybe ten to twelve channels, so often times there weren’t a lot of shows on during the day that interested me, so most of the time when my homework was all done I would go outside to occupy my free time. I would run in the yard, or I would ride my bike, or throw a ball with the neighbor kids. I was always on the run and hardly thought of, or made time for, stopping to get a snack. The times that hunger would overcome my need to be running around, I would quickly go grab an apple. Apples were much better than a bag of chips solely because they only required one hand to eat them, and I couldn’t spill an apple, therefore I could still use my other hand to be out riding my bike. Kids these days have the internet, cable, or dish television that broadcast up to a million different channels. Children can always find something to watch on television at any given time, so they spend all of their time watching TV instead of going outside to run around and get exercise and play. They choose to sit on the couch and get fat, and instead of eating an apple or a healthy snack, they watch commercials for chips, cookies, and soda pop that give them cravings for

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