Television Vs Children

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Television vs children Television can be one of the most harmful means of entertainment in a child’s life. Children are daily being bombarded with violence and inapporpriate content. Children spend hours in front of a television, and through a lack of exercise, become overweight. Many caregivers tend to overlook these harmful factors the coexist with television programs. Numerous adults watch the news on a daily basis and are horrified by the outrageous amount of violent acts witnessed around the world. Guns, gangs, fistfights, and many other violent tools are placed into television programs that children watch for hours at a time. Twenty-eight percent of all children’s shows contain at least four acts of violence per show. Even shows such as “Pokemon” seem to be harmless due to the way that the media presents the show to viewers. Realistically, it is a program encouraging fighting to achieve personal gain. The message is hidden beneath fascinating colors and captivating creatures, but nonetheless, it is eminent. Many children have trouble sleeping at night due to fear that violent television programs have caused them to have. Violence is a message that is detrimental in any child’s life and yet one still views it daily in television programs. Sexual activities, foul language, and other innappropriate content is expressed in more television than one would be able to count. A popular program among many middle school children is “Friends” and it is a show based on unhealthy relationships with numerous sexual partners, foul language many adults do not use themselves, and even encouraged pregnancies out of wedlock. Middle school children expose themselves to this content and more often than never, elementary school children engage in viewing shows such as this with their older siblings. Sex and foul language are not messages that young children
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