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Evaluate the view that 'television is good for your kids



Evaluate the view that 'television is good for your kids

Introduction

Much discussion has been carried out in the field of television and its impacts on individuals within their daily lives and how effectual and influential is has been all along for their mental and physical growth aspects and those deliberations are all a culmination and summary of such discussions which are mostly related to those about television's outcomes and characteristic arrangement of its persuasive advertising and other divisional shows and series of events. Such research is definitely important and empowering in understanding how television holds a critical impact on the thinking abilities and concentration level of children. However, it is also essential to undermine that not all outcomes and influences of television on children are negative (Sparks, 2008).

Most of the time, less attention is paid to the aspects of television which are facilitating and strengthening for those that are outsourcing educational and moral efforts to be implied into the personalities of their children. The positive effects of those television programs which are actually of learning routines and the ones which can actually teach the kids how to assemble their tasks and other capabilities while playing should be undermined and taken into consideration for there is a balance of common perspectives which different channels hold for their viewers and the one which is not negative in all foreseen circumstances (Schechter, 2009).

There is some accountability which should be taken into understanding before completely stating the negative aspects of television; if individuals were to think that children can learn negative lessons from television then they should stand to believe that they can have positive outcomes derived from different aspects as well. For instance, the same medium which is provided for the children to be compelled by the product information provided in commercials can be derived into learning science concepts in an educational or learning program which is broadcasted on a suitable channel. The same medium which is considered that can effect and trigger children's aggressive concepts should also be capable of motivating them into knowing about cooperation with people and helping others.

Just as negative television programs are deliberated to have negative impacts among child viewers, positive programs can produce positive results as well which should be assumed well enough by parents and other supervision individuals of a family. There are some of the major illustrations of studies that represent and demonstrate children's academic and prosaically learning provided with the content and information from television educational programs.

There are some points mentioned in the discussion section which conduct the producers' associated remarks about how different programs are made as educationally effective as possible and that television in those terms is good for the children and kids of younger ages. The purpose of this study is to propagate and have an analysis of the beneficial and positive aspects of the television and its programs on children. A range of different argumentation is provided within ...