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Studies suggest that children spend more time watching TV than they did in the past and spend less on doing active or creative things. Why do you think it is the case? What measures and methods can be used to tackle with it?

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Researches state that
kids
 nowadays prefer to invest their
time
 watching
TV
 rather
then
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than
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 doing creative
activities
. In my
opinion
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 the principal cause of
this
 problem is that watching
TV
 is a form of entertainment that does not require much effort
,
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 while doing other
activities
 is much harder. Because young people are not enough motivated to commit
in
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 some hobbies they spend more
time
 behind a
TV
 screen. How young
kids
 full of energy do not get bored watching
tv
? There are many answers to
this
 question,
however
in my opinion
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 the main reason is that nowadays
kids
 are more lonely than in the past. When young people spend the majority of their
time
 on their own they will not try new
activities
 because of
lack
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 of inspiration,
also
 children need to share their interests with someone in order to find the motivation to spend more
energies
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energy
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in
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on
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 those
activities
. Are strict controls an effective way to remove
kids
 from the screen?
no
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,no
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 they are not. to make
kids
 invest more
time
with
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in
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 creative hobbies we need to convince them that there are better ways to spend their
time
.
First
 of
all
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 parents play a crucial role
for
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in
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 solving
this
 problem. They need to spend more
time
 with
kids
 and try with them different creative things in order to give children inspiration. Later
on
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 teenagers need to find a community with a common interest to hang out with, in
this
 way they will not even have
time
 to spend watching
tv
. Children spend more
time
 watching
TV
 because they are alone and bored and
this
 activity becomes a coping mechanism,
however
 an efficient method to end
this
 behaviour is to encourage them in trying new things making sure that they are not left alone.
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