Second, was to limit commercial advertisements during children programs to 10 minutes in an hour during the weekends and 12.5 minutes during the weekday programs (Calvert and Wilson, 2008, p. 455). Congress finds that television can assist children to learn important information, skills, values, and behavior, while entertaining them. I argue that there is no clear definition of what constitutes ‘educational’ programming under the Children’s Television Act of 1990 therefore being problematic for television programs enhancing a child’s life. Also that Congress and parents both need to be involved in what our children are viewing and work together for a better solution. BACKGROUND Educational and informational programming for children’s television became an issue that started in the 1950’s.
If these programs become more commercial, the argument states, where can parents find trustworthy program for their children? The discussion regarding the quality of children's television in many ways obscures the larger issues of how much time children should spend watching television and what kinds of television should be made available to them. Child development experts caution that smaller children (aged two and up) be allowed no more than two hours of television per day. Children younger than two years old, they say, should be allowed no television at all. Some studies point to increased language development among children with access to television, however.
The personal space violation I pick is a violation on my daughter she in her room as always doing her thing which is mostly watching videos, or playing her play-station. So I go into her room as if I was going to ask her a question . As I approach her closely while she's on her bed and I move more into her she says mom, and started to move away I move more into her she's feeling weird and uncomfortable I said I'm doing a experiment on space violation and have to dictate the reaction with expressions she started laughing and thinking I was strange. The relationship between interpersonal space and problem behaviors is perhaps a more interesting area. The one thing to do is you have the right to defend yourself of the one person who steps in on your boundaries.
There are less children outside playing and more children inside sitting in front of televisions, video games, computers or just laying around in their houses doing nothing at all. Family behavior is another leading cause of childhood obesity. Parental behavior patterns are the main cause of the problem. Children learn from what they see. Parents who have poor shopping, cooking, eating and exercise habits show their children that their way of life is okay, when it, in fact, is not.
Katelin Knowles Ms. Hannaford English II -5th hour 06 December 2012 How Television Violence Negatively Affects Children Many adults urge for children to watch more hours per week of educational programming, while others assert that zero hours of television is the best solution (Alfred I.). Even though the best solution is for children to not watch television until after the age of seven, because by then they will know the difference between right and wrong. Children develop heroism from watching children’s shows. Also because even children’s educational shows have violence in them and when children see repeated amounts of violence it will affect them into using violence as a way to solve problems, television violence sometimes begs for imitation (Alfred I.). Due to the excessive amount of violence on television, desensitization (the process of reducing of sensitivity) is something that more and more children are starting to experience.
The growth of technology promotes environments in which toys are unappealing for children and they rather spend all their time inside the house, immobile and apart from other children, thing that is ruining an important developmental aspect of childhood. Personally, I think that many children are not gaining the necessary social skills need it for a successful future, even though that the future seems to be a place full of advance technology everywhere you look at it ; but personal interaction is necessary in order to avoid suffering from mental and behavioral problems. I remember my mother quite often used to come to me with the speech:” my daughter when I was your age….” She will try to describe me her perception of how her childhood used to be, and while having those shorts of conversations, I remember been so grateful to be born at the time I did, because WOW! Those were toughs times for a child, I remember saying, so many differences! And is funny how now when I see my two teenagers, at times I feel they are miles away, absorbed by the always changing social life, the obsessive pull of video games and virtual worlds, as they stare the “YOU TUBE” videos of themselves and their friends, it feels like something is wrong.
Many have more. One study found that 32 percent of children age’s two to seven had television sets in their bedroom. This number increased to 65 percent for children ages eight to 18. Although television can be an educational tool for student, exposing them to information and situations that they cannot experience first hand, social scientists and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have raised specific concerns about the effect of television watching on young student development. Areas of concern include: inability of young student to distinguish between television fantasy and reality exposure to television violence, especially where violence is not shown to have any serious consequences exposure
It has brought families together, as well as torn them apart. Parents have become very dependent on television to raise their children. Parents even use TV to be a babysitter to their kids. There is no time for family fun when everyone in the house is glues to their own TV set. Television has changed the American family life, and for the worse.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under the age of 2 should not watch television or be around any other type of technology associated with screen time since their brain develops extremely fast during this time and they learn better by interacting with people instead of screens( “Media and Children”). Parents today can use a variety of devices such as a computer, iPad, television, etc. to show children educational things for example a digital book or a learning app. When a parent provides screen time to their child it is completely their choice and up to them on how much time they want their child to have each day. Jackie Whitfield, a director of a preschool, shares with me “when it comes to an early childhood program or a school system within North Carolina it is not up to the teacher on how much time a child can spend using screen time it is the state’s decision which allows children 20 minutes each day.” According to Jim Taylor, a phsycologist, “there is a growing body of research that shows technology is both beneficial and harmful to the different ways children think”.
Therefore, they can develop an appetite for unhealthy food. In addition to this, watching TV will take away the time from running, jumping or doing activities that can burn calories. Secondly, the more TV children watch, the more likely they are to have trouble falling asleep or to have an irregular sleep schedule. For example, when having TV in their bedroom, children will loose sleep only because chasing an soap opera. Thus they will become less alert during the day, and this results in poor school performance.