Children today spend more time watching television than they did in the past. Describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of television for children. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your experience.

There is no denying
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the fact that nowadays youngsters spend a lot of time
in
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watching
television
as compared to
the
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earlier times.
This
has both pros and cons. Some of them are mentioned in the below paragraphs. The
first
and foremost advantage of watching more
television
by
children
is that
television
will help
children
to learn new things. Mostly
children
like
cartoons
, and nowadays
cartoons
are created to provide
knowledge
to
younger
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generation. There are shows which teach good manners and provide
knowledge
in the form of
cartoons
. Through
cartoons
,
children
learn many things which they cannot learn
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theoretically.
Furthermore
, another advantage is that
television
helps to keep the
children
at home. Some of the parents do not want to let
children
go out of the house as they are afraid that
children
can get any injury while playing outside and they can
also
get in the company of bad people.
However
, there are certain disadvantages as well of watching more
television
by
children
. One of the
disadvantage
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is that it causes health problems in
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children
. As
children
will watch more
television
, they will not do any physical activity, they will be exposed to many health problems, including obesity and loss of eye-sight. Statistics have shown that
children
watching more
television
get early health problems as compared to the
children
watching less
television
.
Additionally
, the other disadvantage is that some of the programs or advertisements telecasted
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the
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television
are not meant for younger
children
. By watching these programs or advertisements, they
are expose
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to that
knowledge
which no one
want
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to provide to their young
children
as it can be harmful
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the
children
. One of the
advertisement
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which I feel
inappropriate
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for
children
is
'Red
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Bull' advertisement. Spending more time
in
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watching
television
has a lot of advantages and disadvantages.
However
, I would like to conclude that
children
should watch
television
for limited hours as it will help them to take
certain
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amount of
knowledge
and do physical activity as well.
Moreover
, they should only watch content
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is meant for
children
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • educational programs
  • diverse cultures
  • entertainment options
  • language skills
  • critical thinking
  • social awareness
  • shared experience
  • sedentary lifestyle
  • inappropriate content
  • academic performance
  • attention problems
  • social skills
  • commercial influence
  • addiction
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