Negative Impact Of Movies On Children Essay

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Movies – A negative impact on children? Watching movies is a favourite pastime for everyone especially children. Children are greatly influenced from watching all sorts of movies and try to act on it among their family and friends. Children can learn a lot from watching certain movies but not controlling the type of movies they watch have a great impact on them. As a result these children end up being violent, dishonest, committing illegal activities and misbehaving and yes it could be agreed that movies do have a negative impact on children. Firstly, it will elaborate more on the negative impacts of movies towards children. Then it will describe ways in which it can be reduced. To begin with, watching movies causes violent behaviour in children at a very young age. When too much movies and T.V is watched by children their mental development, health, conversation with adults and interaction with other children are affected. In America, an average child watches 200 000 violent acts on television and such movies are acted by the ‘good guys’ and children admire them. (www.http//kidshealth.org). Children’s minds do not contain any malice and are quiet innocent. They do not know that their action affects their career and future in a very large way.…show more content…
For example, children who grow up surrounded by movies spend less time reading and participating in outdoor activities as these results in children not knowing how to read and being obese. Reading and being physically active develops a child’s concretion, thinking and help them mentally. (www.cimeondesis.com). According to the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) that children under two years old should not watch T.V at all whereas those above two should watch at least one to two hours of educational programmes. T.V gets in the way of ones learning ability both physically and socially and interaction with parents and others.
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