...Advantage or Disadvantage for Pre-School Children Chan Jia-Qi Janice, Chan Kar Kei, Darius Shu Chen Keong, Naik Shiang Jen, Siau Yeu Jiun, Wong Chin Hui, Yap Huey May School of Communication Taylor’s University Index 1.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………… 3-5 1.2 Research Questions …………………………………………………………… 5 1.3 Methodology Selected ………………………………………………………… 5-6 1.4 Data Analysis / Findings ……………………………………………………... 6-13 1.5 Final Discussion of Insights ………………………………………………… 13-15 1.6 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………...15-16 1.7 References …………………………………………………………………... 16-17 1.8 Appendices ………………………………………………………………… 18-29 1.1 Introduction Today, children are spending most of their time being occupied by iPad, iPhone and pad-based gadgets that have the access to the Internet. According to Romeo (2003), the emerging in technological development had allowed computers and touchscreen devices to be added into our lifestyle. For example, touchscreen devices like iPod, iPad, Samsung Tab and etc are used to check emails, surf the Internet, connect with people, either for work purpose or personal purpose, and also used in education purposes in pre-school and colleges. Anderson mentioned this in his research in 1999, “The computer has become recognized tool in education of young children, particularly where it is used to promote problem-solving skills and social interactions amongst children” However in Romeo’s report, it has...
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...Limiters also don’t teach their children about the effects of screens or even how to manage screen time as much as parents who mentor. These parents feel like it is their job to manage screen time, which is partly true, but if all a parent does is limit screen time themselves, the child will never learn how to manage screen time on their own. All in all, limiting screen time is a great way to start a kid into the digital world, but as they get older, kids are more likely to completely go against these rules and find their own...
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...Should Parents Limit Screen Time for Children? Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube and Fruit Ninja, sound familiar? These are all popular apps many people love on their phone, many think that these games are all fun, but there is also a bad side to them that many people don’t see. Parents need to limit screen time for children because it can cause depression and anxiety, a disconnection from nature, and puts them at risk for obesity and unhealthy eating habits. Children who have unlimited screen time or obsessive amounts of screen time are more likely to have depression and or anxiety. As stated by Michael Price, “Researchers have returned to data and looked for a correlation between screen time and depressive symptoms. They found that...
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...know how many schoolchildren in Hong Kong are overweight? Why student get overweight easily? Accountings to Health officials have some encouraging news. The percentage of students deemed overweight has continued to drop over the past few years, down from 21.4 per cent in the 2010 school year to 20.9 this year. Sadly, the rate is still significantly higher than 16.4 per cent 15 years ago. Some 60,000 of 300,000 primary school children are still considered obese. HKU Associate Professor Ye Baijiang thinks the main reason is child lack of exercise. Although, parent always encourage child to do sport. But they think that revision is more important than sport. So child under the pressure of homework and feel tired that become child just want to rest or the Internet. (Weight that is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height is described as overweight or obese. Body Mass Index, or BMI, is used as a screening tool for overweight or obesity. If your BMI is 25.0 to 29.9, it falls within the overweight range.If your BMI is 30.0 or higher, it falls within the obese range). That is the main reason about many schoolchildren in Hong Kong are overweight. Following I will talk about the negative effects of obesity and give some suggest methods to solve this problem. Body A: Internal influence, Many health problems are related to childhood obesity. Compared to children with a healthy weight, obese children have more metabolic risk factors (including enlarged waist...
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...Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching television are more likely to be overweight. Health experts have long linked excessive TV watching to weight gain. While watching TV, kids are inactive and tend to snack. They're also bombarded with ads that encourage them to eat unhealthy foods. The problem isn't just how long children are watching TV but, what they are watching. According to William H. Deitz, pediatrician and prominent obesity expert at Tufts University School of Medicine, "The easiest way to reduce inactivity is to turn off the TV set. Almost anything else uses more energy than watching TV." Television affects the health of both children and adults. First and foremost, television ads are constantly bombarding us with information about health and nutrition, and unfortunately, most of it’s skewed. Our children are most susceptible to these leading advertisements. For instance, children may have a hard time recognizing fact from fiction when they see an ad that shows thin beautiful people enjoying high calorie, high fat foods and drinks. Roughly two-thirds of the 20,000 TV ads an average child sees each year are for food and most are for unhealthy foods. The majority of children who watch health related commercials believe what the ads say, even if the ads do not give accurate or balanced information. Watching television also affects one’s health by replacing other activities and by slowing the metabolic rate. Television viewing leads...
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...WGU Student ID #428887 Childhood Obesity Weight in children is a critical well-being issue in the United States. The overall life expectancy of Americans is declining for the first time in many years. Changes need to be made inside the home, in order for this issue to be resolved. The number of overweight adolescents has tripled subsequent to 1980, and the commonness among more youthful children has doubled. Looking at long term outcomes, overweight teenagers and children have a seventy percent possibility of becoming overweight or obese adults (Bishop, 2005). Childhood obesity has been one of the fastest emerging public health issues in the United States over the last few years. It is becoming a big problem and an important issue for a variety of reasons. To begin, there is a general lack of exercise due to technology; advertising and commercials for unhealthy foods that focus on children. Because fast food is cheaper and more convenient than eating healthy, it is becoming a more acceptable option for Americans today. Parental influence, along with the examples that they set for their children is another major concern to childhood obesity. Childhood obesity, television time, video games, and internet usage are undeniably related. Children spend approximately seven and a half hours per day with media. Four and a half hours of this time is spent watching television (Wethington 2007). There was a study conducted by Wethington (2007), evaluating the effects of...
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...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 be a bad thing: * Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. * Kids who...
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...for what they love. Are some limits reasonable though?Do some limits create other limits?Some children only learn visually and electronically, I'm not saying no TV ever. Just in moderation. Believe it when I tell you in some ways it will prohibit them from progression. I've read two passages and I've came to the conclusion that it is unhealthy in many more ways than physically to Set children in front of a TV all the time. Studies have shown it can actually be damaging. Children are missing out on so many opportunities for the latest episodes. First of all, everything is best in moderation. Your favorite candy or soda. Your work. You're essentially training your kids to be like you. So would it be ok for YOU to sit in front of the TV as long as you wanted with no limits. Works an option, meals are an option. That teaches kids no responsibility. Would it be okay for your child to not do homework, chores, or to excercise? If there is not a set limit there is NO limit. You can't expect to eat candy everyday and not get fat, so how could you...
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...stimuli (Cohen & Gelber, 1975). Most of all babies are designed to be sociable. They prefer human voices to other sounds and human faces to most other patterns (Fantz, 1963). Babies not only respond to, but also interact with, their care-givers. High speed films studies of synchronically- gazing, vocalizing, touching and smiling of mothers and infants are closely coordinated (Martin, 1981). In general, developmental psychologists currently studying what babies can do are becoming even more impressed with how precocious (smart for their age) they are. They seem to be equipped to accomplish three basic task of survival: sustenance (feeding), maintenance of contact with people (for protection and care), and defence against harmful stimuli (withdrawing from pain or threat (von Hofsten & Lindhagen, 1979). Young children’s acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable achievements of the human species. In the span of few years, with little instruction, and often spite of faulty information (for example, parents talking “baby talk”), young children become superb linguistics by the age of 6, the average child is estimated to understand 14,000 words (Templin, 1957). When adults speak to infants and young children they use a special form that differs from adult speech- an exaggerated,...
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...change you” (www.activebeat.com ). Children now spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of the screen” (Mediainthelivesof8to18). Just cannot resist stopping texting or posting a picture on Instagram. These days’ teens are being lazy and believe that physical activity doesn’t matter. Many believes that “28.0% of Americans, or 80.2 million people, aged six and older are physical inactive” (www.fitness.gov 2010 ). This is why teens should stay active it has health benefits, because it provides more time with others, and teens are off the streets. Now day’s teens are not keeping in mind about health benefits that will occur when they stay active. It has been demonstrated that,...
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...Benefit-Double Harm By Dan Nguyen Rhetoric Research Prof. Melody Heide 15 April 2013 One day, I visited a far relative; and when I came into the house, I was startled by the shouts of her kids, “Kill him,” “Die,” “Screw you!” Those kids were playing video games, and they were screaming bad words to each other’s face. I looked up to the screen and saw an extremely gory image of a violent game. I could tell the excitement on the kids’ faces, and when I greeted them, they did not even reply to me. That incident made me think about all the articles of how violent games affect children. Whereas school violence becomes more and more serious, violent games without close control from the government and families is one of the main reasons. Just because of a small contradiction, students can go straight to a fight, acting like some gangsters, and in the worst case, deathly accidents happen. Do violent games lead to violent behaviors? Do they have bad effects on children and society? Many people nowadays would reject those questions and provide various reasons to prove that violent games are good in general. If we take a look on both sides of the problem, video games are great products of entertainment technology that can bring some good effects, but in most of the cases, the bad effects infringe the good effects, especially for violent games, and that’s why we should limit children playing those by banning violent games for all minors in all states. Video games are great products...
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...Implications of modern day gadgets to grade 7 students' classroom performance" Chapter 2 : Many parents are under the belief that technology and gadgets are essential for a child's development, but can you go too far? How much time should a child spend in front of a screen is a question being asked not just by worried parents but psychologists, health organizations and even governments. Read an expert's guidelines for managing a child's screen time, and his warnings on the dangers of recreational screen time, especially before bedtime. A new TLF Panel survey conducted on behalf of kids clothing retailer Vertbaudet.co.uk found that four in five parents believe technology and gadgets are good for kids, aiding in their development. The study found that 37 percent of parents asked said that their child spent between one and two hours a day playing with tech gadgets, and 28 percent said between two- and three hours. Moreover, the study found that 38 percent of two- to five-year-olds own an Android tablet, and 32 percent own an iPad; almost a third (32 percent) of these kids also have a mobile phone. The reason behind all this gadget use: over a third of parents (35 percent) said they use tech gadgets to entertain their children because they are convenient, and nearly a quarter (23 percent) because they want their children to be tech-savvy. A 2015 survey of 1,000 British mothers of children aged 2 to 12 found that 85 percent of mums admit to using technology...
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...next and from children to adults. There are many forms of violence in the media today. Violence is most prevalent on TV and in movies, video games, and the daily news from around the world. Violence can be found in sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts, hockey, and football. The news reports of murder and other forms of violence every day. News about foreign wars or news of violence in your local inner city, bet your bottom dollar you will hear something new every day. It seems like every day there is a new and violent video game coming out. Games about war and games about crime life, even games about fantasy violence are all over the market. Children are affected by violent media more so than adults. Studies have shown that on average, American children watch no less than 4 hours of TV a day. Studies have also proven that violent programming can have some very adverse effects on children. Children can become emotionally numb to violence and develop a lack of empathy for victims, as noted by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Children have been known to imitate the violence they see on TV. Some children may even learn to use violence that they see in real life situations. Sometimes all it takes is once and a kid can be effected by a violent program. Some children may be effected after prolonged exposure to violent programming. Also according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, children with emotional...
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...Violent Children The kitchen floor is shinny with the glow of a fresh mop job. The tall, slender mother stands and chops carrots for dinner. The small child clings to her apron as he sits on the floor with his toy car clinched in his tiny fingers. Chaos is emanating as the mouse, which lives in the floorboard, scampers across the room. Immediately following is Cleo, the family cat, close on the heels of this furry creature’s tail. Just before Cleo reaches his supposed midday snack, the mouse pulls out a mallet and bashes him on the head! A child is watching his favorite cartoon. A commercial interrupts with pictures of weight-loss gimmicks as 1-800 numbers flash across the screen. Now that the show is over the child jumps up and runs about in a state of bliss hitting things the way that his favorite character did. This scene is all too familiar to parents of young children. What is it that causes children to act in such ways? Can we arguably say that the violence on television has no effects on the minds of children? I would like to pose that there is indeed a positive correlation between these two categories. Aggressive or violent television shows cause children to act in aggressive ways. Aggressive and/or violent can be defined as the act of initiating hostilities or invasion, or acting with, or resulting from great force.(Webster Dictionary) Research has shown there is a strong connection between violent television and aggressive children. During the time that...
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...physical activity topic goal (2013) is to improve health, fitness, and quality of life through daily physical activity. HP2020 objective 8.2.2 is to increase the physical activity proportion of children and adolescents aged six to fourteen years who view television, videos, or play video games for a maximum amount of two hours per day. Currently the baseline is 78.9% and by 2020 the projected target should be 86.8%. Physical activity has declined tremendously in communities around America due to the lack of funding, access to available play areas, and cultural disparities. Environmental factors related to physical activity A child’s environment plays a significant role in his or her daily activity. According to Farley, Huhman, Trost, the limited amount of clean play grounds and the involvement in community physical activity organization has led to an increase in sedentary lifestyle. Since play and being active are integral parts of a child’s development there should be an increased advocacy for recreation centers, school based extracurricular activities, community based sports programs and the active fine arts. Urban area play grounds are plagued with unsanitary conditions as stated by Farely et al. (2007). Glass bottles, drug paraphernalia and trash litter these areas where children are supposed to enjoy themselves. Instead they are forced to sacrifice outside play time for inside play, which ultimately leads to the...
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