CHILDREN TODAY SPEND MORE TIME WATCHING TELEVISION THAN THEY DID IN THE PAST. DESCRIBE SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TELEVISION FOR TELEVISION.
NO ONE WOULD DENY THAT CHILDREN OF THESE DAYS ARE MORE ENGAGED IN WATCHING
TELEVISION
THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS FROM DECADES AGO. ALTHOUGH
THERE ARE BENEFITS OF WATCHING TELEVISION
FOR CHILDREN, THESE DO NOT COME WITHOUT SOME DRAWBACKS.
UNDOUBTEDLY, THERE ARE A WIDE RANGE OF ADVANTAGES OF TELEVISION
FOR CHILDREN. FIRST
AND FOREMOST, WATCHING TV
BROADENS THE YOUNG ONES' KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WORLD. THAT IS
TO SAY THAT THROUGH TV
PROGRAMS SUCH
AS DISNEY WORLD AND NICKELODEON, CHILDREN GET TO LEARN DIFFERENT CULTURES OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. SECONDLY
, WATCHING TELEVISION
REINFORCES SKILLS SUCH
AS TEAMWORK, COMMUNICATION, CONFIDENCE AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS IN CHILDREN. FOR EXAMPLE
, A RECENT SURVEY BY YORK DALE UNIVERSITY FOUND THAT 87% OF PARENTS REPORTED A TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR CHILDREN'S CONFIDENCE AND COMMUNICATION SKILL AFTER SIX MONTHS OF EXPOSURE TO TV
PROGRAMS.
DESPITE THE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH WATCHING TV
, THERE ARE SOME DISADVANTAGES TO THIS
. THE MAIN DRAWBACK THAT IS
RELATED TO WATCHING TV
IN KIDS IS POOR READING HABIT AND UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE. IN OTHER WORDS
, A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF CHILDREN PREFER TO SIT IN FRONT OF THE SCREENS ALL DAY THAN READ THEIR BOOKS OR EXERCISE. AS A RESULT
, THIS
HAS DRASTICALLY REDUCED THE READING CULTURE AND INCREASED THE RATE OF OBESITY AMONG CHILDREN. A GOOD ILLUSTRATION IS THE RECENT FINDING BY LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE WHICH STATES THAT 69% OF CHILDREN WHO SPEND MORE THAN 3 HOURS WATCHING TV
IS MORE PRONE TO OBESITY AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.
IN CONCLUSION, WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION
IS ADVANTAGEOUS FOR CHILDREN, IT ALSO
COMES WITH SOME DISADVANTAGES. PARENTS SHOULD DO MORE TO MONITOR AND SUPERVISE THE TIME AND CONTENT OF WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE SEEING IN ORDER TO RAISE A RESPONSIBLE FUTURE GENERATION.Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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