The Effects of Television on Children

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The Effects of Television on Children When you reach home, what is the first thing you will do? Reading? Sleeping? Cooking? Or listening? I think is open the television and sit on the sofa and start watching television. Now, television becomes the most common electrical stuff in our homes. Is television an important source of entertainment for you? All the early television systems were black and white, with color television being invented much later on. Since the early invention of television in the beginning of the 1900s, history has seen many firsts in the area of television. Now, television has become a major part of our lives in the 21st hundred years. Today, every family at least got one television. This shows that television is indispensable in our life. Television has brought many changes to the way many spend their leisure time. While some of these changes have been beneficial, others have had a harmful effect. (Jezek, G. 2006) There are several positive effects of television on children. Most of the young children grew up with watching television. Television gives family members an opportunity to spend time together while watching it. And parents can use the chance to educate their children that show on the television. Parents also can use television to get their children reading by getting books on the same subjects. Parents and children can always talk about the content of the television programs. The educational programs can teach children new things, like doing arts, singing and other things that they cannot learn from their text book. Television also can entertain children. They no need to go outside and spend the money to entertain them. Television becomes a simple and easy entertainment for children. Television also gives information to children like news, current events and
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