How Tv Addiction Affects Children

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Gerardo Aviles Mr.Lilley English 051 July/15/2015 How TV addiction affects children Audience: Parents with kids 8-12 After your children come home from a long day of school and talking with their friends. You notice that they do their homework, and watch TV for the rest of the day because; they have a lot of free time. To you it may not seem like it holds an affect on your children, but it actually do if they have access to all of the programs, and especially if they have a TV in their bedroom where you can’t see what they’re watching. As a parent, you should be concern about how much time your children are watching TV, and what they learn from it. Unlike adults, children are less aware of the programs they’re watching, Such as, violent shows and adult programs. You also need to look out for the nutrition their children are consuming a day while watching TV, because it can lead to obesity. Violent shows are not recommendable for children because, they start to play fight with their friends or siblings. Until one of them get seriously hurt. Movies that show weapons and negative activity are not a good inspiration for your Children, it can be possible that your children will want to have weapon toys and use them inappropriately. Children tend to watch action movies and start imitating the characters and start being aggressive. Movies such as Scarface and training day where the main character is a big time drug dealer, due to them being influenced with the entertainment of what they’re watching, Children may think it’s a cool thing and have a motive to do it. Adult programs may be graphic to children because they have cigarette and alcohol in most Scenes. Also Parents needs to pay attention to their kids and make sure adult movies are to be prohibited to their children because of the profanity they use and the kids can learn from. Sex is a major thing that

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