...Effects of TV Watching on a Child's Development 8/9/2012 Effects of TV Watching on a Child's Development Introduction A child sitting in with a remote in front of a television set could watch anything from cartoons to programs with murders and sexual content that is not suitable for young minds. On the other hand, TV has its potential benefits that come from viewing some shows. The kids can get to learn positive aspects of social behavior such as sharing and cooperation, TV also opens up a new world for kids, giving them a chance to travel the globe, learn about different traditions and cultures and expose them to ideas they may never encounter in their own community. However, TV watching also has some negative health effects on a child's development such as on sexuality, aggressive behavior and academic performance. This paper seeks to carry out the following: discuss and analyze both the positive and negative effects of TV watching on a young child’s development, point out a few ways to counter the negative effects. Positive Effects of TV Watching on a Child’s Development Children learn a lot about the world through television viewing. Teachers can use some instructive TV programs to promote reading instructions for their students. Some curriculum s in schools incorporate studying of movies, plays or other TV programs. In view of enabling children learning these subjects to develop critical thinking, teachers advise them to watch certain TV shows, dissect their plots...
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...Effects of TV Watching on a Child's Development Introduction A child sitting on a couch with a remote in front of a television set could watch anything from cartoons to programs with murders and sexual content that is not suitable for young minds. On the other hand, certain TV programs and shows can have potential benefits for kids. For instance, the kids can get to learn positive aspects of social behavior such as sharing and cooperation. TV also opens up a new world for kids, giving them a chance to travel the globe, learn about different traditions and cultures and expose them to ideas they may never encounter in their own community. This paper seeks to carry out the following: discuss and analyze both the positive and negative effects of TV watching on a young child’s development; and point out a few ways to counter the negative effects. Positive Effects of TV Watching on a Child’s Development Watching TV can positively impact a child’s education. Children learn a lot about the world through television viewing. Teachers can use some instructive TV programs to promote reading instructions for their students. Some curricula in schools incorporate studying of movies, plays or other TV programs. In view of enabling children learning these subjects to develop critical thinking, teachers advise them to watch certain TV shows, dissect their plots and debate on the various ways and strategies used by the cast to solve problems (Van Evra, 2008). Another way TV can positively...
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...influenced by what they see and hear on television whether they are watching a cartoon or an educational program. While some television shows are educational, television can have a more serious effect on a child, like disruptive behavior and obesity. At times, television may seem like a good idea. Many people use it for a source of entertainment, especially in children. There are some positive effects that result from a child watching television. Today, children have the opportunity to watch shows like Dora, Barney, Blue’s Clues, and Sesame Street. I remember when I was a child watching shows like Sesame Street and Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. Educational shows should contain information that can teach a child about letters, which can improve a child’s vocabulary. Other shows can teach children about shapes, manners, feelings, and even a foreign language. Some television programming can even allow children to explore their imagination and creativity, giving them the opportunity to travel around the world and learn new cultures. Shows which are on the Discovery or History channel and even the National Geographic channel are a good source for educational programming. These channels can provide information on how things were made, a timeline of when certain events happened, and even learn about different animals and places. While television can have positive effects by its educational purposes, it can also have a positive effect by developing a parent child relationship. When parents sit...
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...you ever wondered how TV effects yourchildren?Have you ever wondered the reason why your children can’t hear you when they watch TV?Hundred of arguments can be made on the topic that are the advantages of TV worth taking the disadvantages,but it is certain that all around the world no matter what parent’s social status,religion or nationality is,they let their children watch TV because TV has a big role in our lifes.Although the negative results of TV may not be visible in a short-term,TV is a real danger for our children’s lifes with it’smany negative results. There are several negative effects of TV on children. First of all, one of the negative effect of TV is that TV effects children’s physical development. Studies have shown that children who watch TV for more hours are more likely to be overweight. In fact, the study results are not surprising. Half of the commercials encourage children to eat unhealthy foods such as chips, candies especially high-calorie foods. Commercials have a big influence on children’s bad eating habits because children are unable to distinguish program content from commercials especially when a cartoon character is promoting the product. For example, in order to introduce the product ,Pingui,advertisers used a cartoon characters and made the characters talk with each other. After this commercial ,the sales amount of Pinguiis increased because they’d drawn children’s attention.Furthermore, children who watch more TV, are more likely to...
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...Television and Children NaTasha Buggs Com/172 January 9, 2012 Melissa Glossup Television has made a big effect on our children today by having attention disorders, obesity, and many more. Learning the negative effect, positive effect , and knowing how to monitor our kids viewing habits will help parents see what effect television has on children. Television causes a negative effect on children. Research shows that television can cause attention disorders and emotion disorders that lead to trouble on down the line. Attention disorders have been a big concern in children today. Studies show that a big result from attention disorder comes from children watching too much television. “Watching television leads to a developmental disorder in the part of the brain, which is responsible for language skills” (Oak, Manila Para 3). This tells us that kids are learning their language skills not just from parents, but from television as well to much of unsupervised television could cause children to develop the wrong type of language skill. The brain develops rapidly between the ages of one and five years watching television over a certain amount of time a day could cause attention disorder. “ Researchers have found that every hour preschoolers watch television each day boosts their chances by about 10percent of developing attention deficit problems later in life” (organic consumers...
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...the growing concern over the effect of television on children has gripped the nation. Studies have shown that today’s shows on television have a negative effect on the social behavior on children, causing them, among other things, to be more hostile toward others, and interact less with others. While in the past, cartoons could have been an easy target by parents and other watchdogs on this issue, these days, other types of shows and programming have been culprits as well. The suggested solutions on how to remedy this stem from parents connecting with their children. As the saying goes, easy to say, but hard to do. In today’s busy world, parents often miss how big a presence television is in their children’s live. According to the University of Michigan Health System, “television viewing among kids is at an eight year high” (Boyse, 2010, para. 6). Children spend an average of 32 hours a week in front of the television, collectively from watching movies, playing videogames, or just watching shows on TV. As their parents get busier with work, children spend more time finding ways to entertain themselves, and the most obvious choice is the TV. Television executives are aware of this, of course, and today many shows are being geared toward babies and toddlers as opposed to past generations, making television the number one teacher in the early lives of these young ones. According to Jerry Odland (2004), “young children are spending more time watching television, playing video games...
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...have TV. Therefore, children don’t give up television, so it means they are always sitting in front of TV. Children shouldn’t be allowed to watch TV because there are two primary negative effects of watching TV on kids, which are social problems and health problems. The first reason why children shouldn’t be allowed to watch TV is social problems. To begin with, children who watch too much TV can suffer from identity crisis. When children are watching TV, they see bad people on TV. Therefore, if they try to be like these people, they will take all negative side of this arts. According to Park (2013) illustrate that children and teens who can get to be extremely cliché and mentality of the performing artists on-screen characters which they see on TV. Therefore, it is hard for kids to be their own particular individuals. It means, when children watch TV a lot, they lose their own personality. Moreover, they have communication problems. A child who watches TV for a long time His brain will develop less than other Children. Also, if kids watch TV, they get addicted to it, so they won’t have friends and they won’t learn how they can communicate with people. For example, before five decades children was playing with their friends and they meet them all day but these days children can see their friends one a week or one a year because of television. To sum up, social problems is one of the negative effects of watching TV on kids, so they shouldn’t be allowed to watch TV....
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...December 4, 2012 Article Summary According to the first article How TV Affects Your Child, children under the age of six (including two-thirds of infants and toddlers) watch two hours of some sort of media screen a day. These hours increase to almost six hours a day for children ages eight to eight-teen years of age. This is a huge difference to what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends; children under the age of two years should not watch any TV (screen time could interfere with brain and social development) and children older than two years of age should not watch any more than two hours of quality programming a day (screen time could interfere with social, academic, and physically actives). There are a lot of positive attributes TV can offer: quality programming can teach young children the alphabet or interesting facts about nature and adults can stay current with the evening news. However, a little TV goes a long way. Children who watch violent media are less likely to trust the outside world and more likely to have aggressive behaviors. American children watch, on average, two hundred thousand violent acts on TV by the time they reach the age of eight-teen years old. All this violence gives children a mixed message. While us adults say it is “not nice” to hit the so-called “hero” shows hitting is the way to fight the “bad guys”. How is this showing our youth the difference between right and wrong? Young children cannot distinguish between what is real and...
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...Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability Com/156 5-6-2012 Introduction According to the Leiden University of Leiden Netherlands, a two part survey was conducted in a three year stint. The survey was to establish to show the effects of television and a child’s reduction of his or her comprehension level. The survey was conducted in two parts, the first part was to show if the amount of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people...
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...much but this popularity is a huge problem because it has gotten to the point where no one questions its educational values. Currently as of June 19th, not a single article was found exposing about the negative aspects of Pororo. Mothers turn on Pororo for their kids, in the hope that it will have educational benefits. However, contrary to many mothers’ belief, Pororo can have some negative effects on children’s education in terms of intellectual, physical/social, and emotional development. First of all, Pororo can have a negative effect on a child’s intellectual development. Watching TV affects children’s brain activity to become passive towards learning. Studies show that watching TV reduces alpha waves, which is associated with relaxed meditative states. This creates “mind fog” state which means people feel it’s harder to concentrate and stay focused, like daydreaming (Carmichael). Thus if children watch the Pororo animation for a long time, their mind will be at a mental fog state which will make them harder to focus. This will lead to shortened attention span and even to attention disorder. There are already 1 numerous studies proving the link between TV addiction and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. According to research, one hour increase in TV watching increases the probability of developing ADHD by 10% (qtd. in Song). ADHD...
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...How Media Effect Children Franchester White Eng/101 September 7, 2014 Karen Strimkovskey Is your child safe? As a parent, you always want to know what your child is watching on television. The media is a powerful tool that doesn’t always teach a positive lesson. Media have provided the means and opportunity for children to distort reality into fallacies through television and video games. While media programs have a negative effect on children, there are some positive programs. The largest amounts of violence are found in children shows. Children between the age of 2 and 18 spends 6 hours and 32 minutes on an average a day using media with the exception of sleeping this is more than they spend on any other activity. When multiple media is stimulated, this time is increased to 8 hours a day. Big parts of media exposure are violent acts that are also witnessed in video games. On an average, a young child will have viewed 200,000 acts of violence on television (TV). Exposure to violent media wrecks havoc on thoughts, feeling, and most importantly, behavior. “The Influence of Media Violence on Youth,” a report appearing in the December 2003 edition of “Psychological Science in the Public Interest,” points to strong evidence points to the exposure to media violence causes boost in physically and verbally aggressive behavior in children. “Extensive research evidence indicates that media violence can contribute to aggressive behavior...
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...How TV Affects Your Child Most kids plug into the world of television long before they enter school. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF): * two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day * kids under age 6 watch an average of about 2 hours of screen media a day, primarily TV and videos or DVDs * kids and teens 8 to 18 years spend nearly 4 hours a day in front of a TV screen and almost 2 additional hours on the computer (outside of schoolwork) and playing video games The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and that those older than 2 watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming. The first 2 years of life are considered a critical time for brain development. TV and other electronic media can get in the way of exploring, playing, and interacting with parents and others, which encourages learning and healthy physical and social development. As kids get older, too much screen time can interfere with activities such as being physically active, reading, doing homework, playing with friends, and spending time with family. Of course, TV in moderation can be a good thing: Preschoolers can get help learning the alphabet on public television, grade schoolers can learn about wildlife on nature shows, and parents can keep up with current events on the evening news. No doubt about it — TV can be an excellent educator and entertainer. Still, too much TV can...
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...Landry Composition 1302.05 2/15/2015 Negative Effects of Television There is no doubt that the media influences us. These influences are known as media effects. Media effects are commonly described along a cognitive-effective behavioral dimension, which marks a distinction between acquisition of knowledge about an action and performance of the action.(Perse 34)When we go to watch an action movie at a theater. You feel like attempting a stunt you saw in the movie. When some people watch a show with their favorite actor or actress, they tend to want to wear what that person is wearing. Television shows are the most popular pastime for the average human-being who are interested in watching it. Women believe that the best way to look is the way they see models walk down a runway. These apply to most people. Furthermore, it is important to dwell on the negative influences of media because these can change the dynamics of the society for the worse. Television can grow to an addiction. The world's most popular leisure pastime is watching television. The amount of time people spend watching television is astonishing. On average, individuals in the industrialized world devote three hours a day to the pursuit-fully half of their leisure time, and more than on any single activity save work and sleep. At this rate, someone who lives to 75would spend nine years in front of a television. Most make it their own decision to watch TV because they enjoy it. Most people admit to...
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...problems, especially in children. Many researchers now claim that too much television is not good for kids. They have a point; watching too much TV often does have negative effects on youngsters. One negative effect of TV on kids is laziness. Nowadays kids do not think that outdoor activities are as entertaining as a TV show can be. In the commodity of the couch they can pass hours and hours without moving even a finger watching TV. On the other hand, if they go to play outside it requires physical activity and a little bit of imagination; it can be too hot or too cold. Staying inside watching TV is not a hard option. Attention, imagination, or physical effort is not a requirement anymore if you they want to pass a good time. It is very simple, just stay home, lie on the couch and with a remote control in hand, hours and hours will pass without even noticing. Another negative point about TV watching is that it may cause children to have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is not. Movies and kids’ shows are full of fantasy worlds. Event adults’ shows are very unreal these days. Kids are like sponges and absorb very fast anything that happens around them. If television is a big influence in their lives, television now plays the role of a teacher of a parent. Kids believe things are as they see they happen. If they see it on TV and nobody is there to...
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...As long as Experts suspect that babies younger than two years old view TV as a confusing array of colors, images, and noises. They don’t understand much of the content. Since the average TV scene lasts five to eight seconds, toddler doesn’t have enough time to digest what’s happening. While all this certainly helps captivate the toddlers’ attention and conveniently keeps them quietly glued to the television, research says watching excessive television is not quite good for toddlers. And I am going to talk about some of the major negative effects of television on toddlers in the following. First of all, in academically, it is about low grades. There was a study of more than 1,300 Canadian schoolchildren tracked the amount of television children were watching at the ages of about 2 and 5. . The result shows that average level of television viewing shown in the study falls within recommended guidelines. Compared with children who watched less television, those with more TV exposure participated less in class and had lower math grades. Secondly, watching TV also affects toddlers with their health. Children who watch a lot of television during their early years snacked more, exercised less, and had higher ratios of body fat and they are at risk for childhood obesity. Also there have higher chances of developing sleep problems and speech delays. Thirdly, it affects them in mentally way. It may tend to development of unhealthy behavior. Television broadcasts a variety of...
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