Watching TV is fun and education for children, but in my opinion, screen time should be limited to no more than one hour a day while in child care and early education settings. The main reasons of this are because too much screen time can increase the risk of becoming overweight, lead to troubles in falling asleep, as well as result in some emotional, social and attention problems. Firstly, the more TV children watch, the greater his or her risk is of becoming overweight. For instance, kids often snack on junk food while watching TV. Therefore, they can develop an appetite for unhealthy food.
In this essay I will be talking about how children are affected by television. Although many parents these days do not want their children to watch television, there are a lot of educational shows available today. Many parents may not want their children to watch modern television, and I would have to tell those parents that there are some shows out there these days that are very educational and they are aimed towards the young. Watching the educational cartoons can be very helpful for a child’s mind. There can be positive results emotionally, physically, and psychologically.
Diet of television is the answer. I think parents should not replace a baby sitter for the TV, or even replace them selves for the TV. I know a lot of parents who prefer to sleep 30 minutes alone, and all they do is send their children to watch TV or play violent video games, they totally forget about the damage it is causing to them, and when they grow up parents complaint why their children are so violent with them and everybody else. I think the idea of built-in time-channel lock circuitry is awesome. Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence.
Kids are bombarded with ads that encourage them to eat unhealthy foods such as potato chips and soft drinks. Children watching an average of 4 hours of TV a day can lead to a lack of physical activity that then leads to obesity. Studies have shown that decreasing the amount of TV that kids watched, led to less weight gain and a lower body mass index. In conclusion, children who watch too much TV have a risk of becoming obese. TV shows violent behavior that may lead to an increased risk of children emulating that same behavior.
Pros and Cons on Carnage as Entertainment There's been talk of the benefits and dangers of children watching television virtually since the medium's beginnings in the late 1940s. Parents wishing to allow their children to enjoy television's virtually limitless power to educate and entertain just as often find themselves taken aback by mature themes and subject matter. For decades, public television and certain child-friendly cable networks offered safe harbor from conventional television programming, though in recent years the educational value of some of its programming has fallen under criticism, too. The accusations stem from a belief that so-called educational programming has compromised its standards for the sake of competing with mainstream television entertainment. If these programs become more commercial, the argument states, where can parents find trustworthy program for their children?
All children want to do now a day is play games rather than going out for sports activities and this also makes them lazy. This can also lead to important consequences concerning health such as eye strain leads to short sight, backache, mental sickness, obsession or even addiction. Also, too much computer games makes kids socially isolated, they become arrogant, careless about all the other activities and their grades, they don’t interact with their family and friends and that changes other’s opinions about them. Studies have showed that the more time a kid spends playing games, the poorer is his performance at school. Games can confuse reality and fantasy, kids may get too involved in the game or influenced by it that they start mixing up reality with fantasy, this damages their control over their minds, they start to become slaves of the computer games and
Violence in video games’ disadvantages A. For players’ health 1. Physically To evaluate how violent video games affect children, one must consider the techniques these games rely on and what literature shows about the games’ impact. Violent video can be so addictive to children that they’re parents cannot control it. Children who are addict are playing these games until 2:00 a.m. without eating or drinking.
These entertainment devices are taking away from physical activities and are leading to increased energy intake through snacking and eating meals in front of the TV; and, influence children to make unhealthy food choices through exposure to food advertisements. The parents need to limit the inside entertainment time, such as T.V and gaming systems from their homes and swap that time for things such as outside family time. That allows time for exercising such as a walk. These children need to burn calories by being physically active. It’s sad to say that Obesity now affects 17% (12.5 million) of all children and adolescents in the United States.
However, some children don’t get enough exercise because they watch a lot of TV and it’s hard for full time employed parents to focus on their children’s physical activities. Therefore, their children can end up very unhealthy and obese. Obese means being overweight due to the lack of exercise. Children experience may activities during recess. For example, there was a group of children playing hide and seek; others were taking turns on the slide.
As a result on this family and society negligence on our youth, many children and teenagers have psychological problems that are expressed in different ways through inappropriate cognitive development and deviant behavior. Adolescence violence has skyrocketed in the US leading to a number of young people involved in criminal process, dead, or in prison because they have expressed a violent learned behavior. The Television industry is a greedy business. In the search for profit, TV outlets designed programming and advertisements targeting specific demographics. Children and teenagers (youth) are more apprehensive to media manipulation and consume in high demands the content that is supplied.