Watching television in excess is harmful to children
...ferent people think the violent acts in different ways and they can be portray in the media for different reasons. E.g. a man had his house broken into, caught the burglars in his house and he shot them, was this act of violence? At the same time, we can hardly ignore the fact that TV does feature aggressive and violent behaviour. (Harris, 1989) Noted that By “The age of 14 the average American child has seen 11,000 murders on TV ’’ The relationship between violence and aggression has been experimenting in children as young as 3. Aggression in early adulthood is also related to the amount of violence watched in middle childhood because there is a sensitive period between ages 8 and 12 during which children are particularly susceptible to the power of violence. Those boys who watched the most violence on television were the most aggressive when they were 19. The number of homicides increased greatly after champion ship boxing matches were aired on television. Television violence reduced the tendency to become worried. Young children are also more vulnerable because they cannot distinguish between fiction and reality. Fiction means for example thriller movies and cartoons its not in reality, it just in the television only to entertainment of people its doesn’t happen in the real life, and reality means truth which will happened in real. A lot of families are worried about how television affects young children. The first two years are important years in the life of a child physically, mentally, and socially, a time when the brain develops quickly. This is the time when the brain connections related with many skills are developing efficiently and they are ready to benefit from the television or video program. According to “American Academy of pediatrics research indicates that the fast-paced action features of children’s television programming may contribute attention disorders in children. Overall, higher levels of television viewing compare with academic performance in school, especially in reading” Children or Youngster who watch television a lot will be effected as there is a lack of concentration, a drop in academic performance. Television will sometimes show the impact of media right here, such as when your child watches superhero fighting and then copies their moves during play. But most of the time the impact is not so immediate or obvious. It occurs slowly as children see and hear certain messages over and over again. As so you also should limit your children for television viewing as this may become a habit in child and then children may lose concentration on his/her mind and this may also cause a psychological effect on a child’s mind. Television can also lead to child obesity the children of today are becoming more obese, because of laziness as they are very attracted to television and as well as the Modern Technology. They are spending more time in front of the television then they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies want exercise to lose baby fat before it gets to be a serious problem. The increase of technology has had a major impact on the obesity among children. This technology has made the normal childhood play exercises with...