Television is a Bad Influence on Children for Young Children

Question: Discuss about theTelevision is a Bad Influence on Children for Young Children. Answer: In todays generation, television has become an integral part of habitats and imagining life without it is not viable. It has become one of the greatest medium that provides entertainment to all ages especially children. Children who are mostly attracted towards watching television ages between 2-18 years and many guardians have even installed television sets in their bedrooms. On an average, a child spends nearly 5-6 hours spending their leisurely time in surfing Medias like computers, mobile phones and television(Block). Among every Medias, television proves to be the most used among them. Many researchers have found few benefits of television over children but negative impacts of it have been mentioned more(Aabid). The optimists believe that television provides children with knowledge and informations about present world. Preschoolers can learn alphabets and other sounds from watching educational channels and shows. But in families where parents are working outside and leave their children with babysitters may be left unattended and allowed to watch TV shows they are not supposed to watch. This means that a child is left without supervision who can easily watch programmes related to violence and adulteries(Nash). Watching of such rudiments may develop fear among children about violence in society along with creating unhealthy intuition that some evil might happen to them also. In short, television creates lack of confidence in child along with making them feel more insecure(Paediatrics Child Health ). Although academics do not judge effect of television in negative manner, but finding of scholars states that television increased aggressiveness among children which indirectly shows a negative sign(Turow). Excessive watching of television reduces childs personal thinking and plagues children behaviour with others. Constant watching of violence and superheroes jumping around can even make children perform dangerous activities. In another survey it was proved that watching more television made child unhealthy as eating snacks while watching television was found to be common in most of the children(lafsdttir). Reduced physical activities made children sit at home premises thereby reducing contacts with others. This again shows bad influence as if the child does not meet with more people, he/she can become self restrained and dull(Jusoff). On concluding note it can be said that watching television has bad influence on children which results in building unhealthy lifestyle. Watching excessive television also results in losing control of parents over children(Murray). Another negative impact is that children starts losing interest in daily household works and becomes unaware of self maintained lifestyle. Parents also play significant role here by allowing their children watching excessive television. If they are controlled at early stage, chances of getting addiction in them can be reduced. According to the theorists, watching violent programmes makes children violent but stopping them from watching it makes them aggressive(Thomas). This shows the amount of addiction created by televisions. At the end it can be said that watching television shall be made more productive by keeping an eye on children while watching television along with monitoring the amount of time they spend in it so that bad influence of television on children is reduced. References: Aabid, Mahesh Chandra Guru and Raja Raslana. Role of Television in Child Development. 2013. 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