Children

Children

Introduction

It is completely true that children who spend more time watching television, spends less time on certain other creative, educational, and physical activities. Extensive viewing of televisions can have some huge impacts on the physical along with mental health of a child. Mental health and physical health is integral to the overall health of children and adolescents and it is essential for survival of youth, since it determines the behavior, perception, thinking, communication, and understanding level of youth. Reading, drawing and writing are the most essential skills that a child learns from a very young age. However, it becomes difficult to invoke that interest in some children who find reading and writing to be tedious work, and they spend most of their time watching television. It is very important for parents to understand that they must educate and guide children in the right way. Teachers and parents have an immensely important role to play in the development of the personality, and skills of their child. So it is job of the parents and teachers to guide them correctly.

Discussion

The influence of television on children

Television is one of the media having the most influence in the lives of children. They watch an average of 15 hours per week. The influence of TV on children depends on several factors: the number of hours spent watching television, their age, personality, the fact of watching TV alone or with adults, and finally the discussions they have or not with their parents on the content being viewed. To minimize the potentially negative effects of television, it is important to understand the influence that it may have on children. You will find below information on certain issues (Zimmerman et.al, 2005).

Violence

Researchers have conducted, almost thousand of studies regarding the influence of violent content on children and youth. Although it is difficult to conclude a direct cause and effect of violence on the children's.

Impact of violent television shows on children

Increased fear

Children's are small and they suddenly believe what they see, seeing violent shows on the television may have negative impacts on the mind of the child, the child might start to think that this is the reality. He or she might start to develop a sense of fear inside his or her heart regarding the surroundings he is residing.

Desensitization to violence in general

Some children's cartoons are among the most violent programs. Violence is presented in a comic and its real consequences are rarely exposed.

Changes in behavior

Watching violent shows makes the child behavior a lot more aggressive, as we all know that a child immediately catches what he sees. The action, stunts that the child watches on the television he thinks all of that as the part of the real world. The child try to act the way they show the character of television acting, and the worst is the stunts that the children watch on television they tend to try those stunts at home, which is immensely dangerous. It is the responsibilities of the parent to ...